He received his Ph.D. in Art History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1985.

[citation needed] In 1998 he was appointed to develop the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris which opened in 2007.

In the course of his career he curated many major exhibitions including "The Lost Vanguard", at the Museum of Modern Art (2007); "Scenes of the World to Come", "Architecture in Uniform" and "Building a New New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture" at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1995, 2011, and 2019); "Paris-Moscou" (1979) and the centennial show "L'aventure Le Corbusier" (1987), both at the Centre Georges Pompidou; "Le Corbusier, tainy tvorchestva," at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (2012); "Interférences – architecture, Allemagne, France" at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt (2013); and "Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes" at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2013.

[6][7][8] In 2012, he was awarded a Graham Foundation Individual Grant for the publication of his forthcoming history of French Architectural Modernism by Reaktion Books.

[citation needed] In 2013 the Collège de France in Paris appointed him for three years to hold a chair devoted to Architecture and Urban Form.