Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity

Author: Antoine Picon
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 03/26/2013
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.60w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781119965954

About the Author

Antoine Picon is the G Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He is also Director of Research at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris. He has published numerous books and articles mostly dealing with the complementary histories of architecture, science and technology, among which are: French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1992 and 2009), Claude Perrault (1613-1688) ou la curiosité d'un classique (Picard, 1988), L'Invention de l'Ingénieur Moderne, L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851 (Presses de l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1992), La Ville Territoire des Cyborgs (L'Imprimeur, 1998), Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie (Belin, 2002), and Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions (Birkhäuser, 2010).