Antoine Picon

Antoine (Maurice Joseph Charles) Picon (born 8 March 1957)[1] is a 20th-/21st-century French professor of the History of Architecture and technology and co-director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

[2] He is member of the scientific committee of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles (ENSAV).

Architect DPLG in 1984 and Doctor in History of School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, with honors in 1991.

[7] Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian of science and art, Picon has published extensively on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the 18th century to the present.

[8] Picon has also published numerous articles, mostly dealing with the complementary histories of architecture and technology.