Antoine Picon

Professor Antoine Picon serves as the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he chairs the PhD program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning. His unique expertise stems from his multidisciplinary background as an engineer, architect, and historian, with degrees from prestigious French institutions including École Polytechnique, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, and a PhD from École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His influential scholarship spans from 18th-century architectural history to contemporary digital culture, with groundbreaking works including "Smart Cities: A Spatialized Intelligence" (2015), "Digital Culture in Architecture" (2010), and "French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment" (1988). His contributions have earned him numerous accolades, including the Médaille de la Ville de Paris, the Prix du Livre d'Architecture de la Ville de Briey, membership in the French Académie des Technologies, and the title of Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. As Chairman of the Fondation Le Corbusier from 2013 to 2024, he has further shaped architectural discourse while continuing to explore the intersections of architecture, technology, and society through his teaching and research at Harvard.