Harvard Graduate School of Design Professor Antoine Picon
speaks on "DigitalCities"
speaks on "DigitalCities"
DATE: May 2
TIME: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Talk at 7:15, 40 mins presentation, Q&A, cocktails)
PLACE: France-Ameriques. 9-11 Ave. Franklin Roosevelt. 75008. Paris.
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Antoine Picon, Professor, Department of Architecture. Picon is Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the GSD. He teaches courses in the history of architecture and technology. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian of science and art, Picon is best known for his work in the history of architectural technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. His French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (1988; English translation, 1992) is a study of the disciplinary "deep structures" of architecture, garden design, and engineering in the eighteenth century, and their transformations as new issues of territorial management and infrastructure-systems planning were confronted. In addition to six other books, Claude Perrault (1613-1688) ou la curiosité d'un classique (1988), L'Invention de L'ingénieur moderne, L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851 (1992), La ville territoire des cyborgs (1998), and Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie (2002), Tra utopia e ruggine, Paesaggi dell'ingegneria dal Settecento a oggi (2006), Marc Mimram Architect-Engineer: Hybrid (2007). Picon’s last book, Digital Culture in Architecture (2001) is a synthetic overview of the changes brought to architecture and the city by digital technologies. Picon received engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, an architecture degree from the Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Villemin, and a doctorate in history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
TIME: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Talk at 7:15, 40 mins presentation, Q&A, cocktails)
PLACE: France-Ameriques. 9-11 Ave. Franklin Roosevelt. 75008. Paris.
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How are digital technologies transforming our cities?
Digital technologies have already begun to change our cities. The lecture will discuss some key aspects of these ongoing changes, like the rise of a knowledge-based economy, the new importance given to the individual dimension or the hybridization between physical and electronic spaces. The accent will be put on the concrete and often sensory dimensions of some of these changes as well as on their implications for urban design and architecture.
Antoine Picon, Professor, Department of Architecture. Picon is Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the GSD. He teaches courses in the history of architecture and technology. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian of science and art, Picon is best known for his work in the history of architectural technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. His French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (1988; English translation, 1992) is a study of the disciplinary "deep structures" of architecture, garden design, and engineering in the eighteenth century, and their transformations as new issues of territorial management and infrastructure-systems planning were confronted. In addition to six other books, Claude Perrault (1613-1688) ou la curiosité d'un classique (1988), L'Invention de L'ingénieur moderne, L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851 (1992), La ville territoire des cyborgs (1998), and Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie (2002), Tra utopia e ruggine, Paesaggi dell'ingegneria dal Settecento a oggi (2006), Marc Mimram Architect-Engineer: Hybrid (2007). Picon’s last book, Digital Culture in Architecture (2001) is a synthetic overview of the changes brought to architecture and the city by digital technologies. Picon received engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, an architecture degree from the Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Villemin, and a doctorate in history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
