Alumni Book Signing and Discussion: Smart Cities: A Spatialized Intelligence
A reception, lecture, discussion and book signing with Antoine Picon, G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Research at the GSD.
Thursday, March 10th @ 6:30-8:30pm
A+D ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN MUSEUM, 900 E 4th St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
In collaboration with A+D Architecture and Design Museum and the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design
Antoine Picon, is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Research at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the present.
Picon has received numerous awards for his writings, including the Médaille de la Ville de Paris and twice the Prix du Livre d’Architecture de la Ville de Briey, a well as the Georges Sarton Medal of the University of Gand. In 2010, he was elected a member of the French Académie des Technologies, and in 2015 an associate member of the French Académie d’Architecture. He is Chevalier des Arts et Lettres since 2014. He is also Chairman of the Fondation Le Corbusier.
Begining with his book La Ville territoire des cyborgs (1998), Picon has investigated the changes brought to cities and architecture by the development of digital tools and digital culture. Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Profession (2010) offers a comprehensive overview of this important transition. Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (2013) focuses on the “return” of ornament in digital architecture. And his newest book, Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence (2015) discusses the impact of digital culture on cities.
Picon received science and engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, an architecture degree from the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris-Villemin, and a PhD in history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Please join us on March 10th for a reception, lecture, and book signing with ANTOINE PICON of Harvard’s GSD.
Introduced by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Cost: $15, individuals; $7, students
Register: Through A+D Architecture and Design Museum's website, here
Contact: Madeleine Mejia at Madeleine_Mejia@post.harvard.edu