Books By Wendy W. Fok, Antoine Picon - Author

Antoine Picon is the G Ware Travelstead Professor of  the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard GSD. He works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the 18th century to the present. In his book La Ville territoire des cyborgs (Editions de l'lmprimeur, 1998), he began to investigate the changes brought to cities and architecture by the development of digital tools and digital culture. His three most recent books - Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Profession (Birkhauser,  2010); Ornament:The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (John Wiley & Sons,2013); and Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence (Wiley, 2015) - deal extensively with this question. He received science and engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, an architecture degree from the Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Villemin, and a PhD in history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences S