Antoine Picon
Author of Digital Culture in Architecture
About the Author
Antoine Picon is G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He is author of numerous books, including Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity.
Series
Works by Antoine Picon
French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture) (1992) 15 copies
L'invention de l'ingenieur moderne: L'Ecole des ponts et chaussees, 1747-1851 (French Edition) (1992) 3 copies
Natures urbaines: une histoire technique et sociale 1600-2030: [exposition, Paris, pavillon de l'Arsenal, du 24 avril au 29 septembre 2024] (2024) 2 copies
Associated Works
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (Whitney Museum of American Art Book) (2008) — Contributor — 57 copies
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences (1991) — Contributor — 48 copies
Précis of the lectures on architecture ; with, Graphic portion of the lectures on architecture (2000) — Introduction, some editions — 13 copies
Harvard Design Magazine: urban design now — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Picon, Antoine
- Legal name
- Picon, Antoine
- Birthdate
- 1957-08-03
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - Awards and honors
- Chevalier des Arts et Lettres (2014)
- Relationships
- Roncayolo, Marcel
- Short biography
- Antoine Picon est ingénieur Général des Ponts et Chaussées.
Il est diplômé de l'École Polytechnique en 1979 et de l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées en 1981.
Architecte D.P.L.G. en 1984, il est Docteur en histoire de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, en 1991.
Il a été Professeur à l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées de 1997 à 2002.
Professeur d'histoire de l'architecture et des technologies de l'Université Harvard depuis 2002 et chercheur à l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées depuis 2008.
Picon a reçu plusieurs prix pour son travail notamment Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2003 catégorie "Essai" pour M. Michèle Riot-Sarcey, Thomas Bouchet, Antoine Picon (dir.), Dictionnaire des utopies. - Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Saint-Etienne, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Map Location
- France
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As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life. This has made the Smart City an essential focus for engineers, architects, urban designers, urban planners, and politicians, as well as businesses such as CISCO, IBM and Siemens. Despite its broad show more appeal, few comprehensive books have been devoted to the subject so far, and even fewer have tried to relate it to cultural issues and to assume a truly critical stance by trying to decipher its consequences on urban space and experience. This cultural and critical lens is all the more important as the Smart City is as much an ideal permeated by Utopian beliefs as a concrete process of urban transformation. This ideal possesses a strong self-fulfilling character: our cities will become 'Smart' because we want them to.
This book opens with an examination of the technological reality on which Smart Cities are built, from the chips and sensors that enable us to monitor what happens within the infrastructure to the smartphones that connect individuals. Through these technologies, the urban space appears as activated, almost sentient. This activation generates two contrasting visions: on the one hand, a neo-cybernetic ambition to steer the city in the most efficient way; and on the other, a more bottom-up, participative approach in which empowered individuals invent new modes of cooperation. A thorough analysis of these two trends reveals them to be complementary. The Smart City of the near future will result from their mutual adjustment. In this process, urban space plays a decisive role. Smart Cities are contemporary with a 'spatial turn' of the digital. Based on key technological developments like geo-localisation and augmented reality, the rising importance of space explains the strategic role of mapping in the evolution of the urban experience. Throughout this exploration of some of the key dimensions of the Smart City, this book constantly moves from the technological to the spatial as well as from a critical assessment of existing experiments to speculations on the rise of a new form of collective intelligence. In the future, cities will become smarter in a much more literal way than what is often currently assumed. show less
This book opens with an examination of the technological reality on which Smart Cities are built, from the chips and sensors that enable us to monitor what happens within the infrastructure to the smartphones that connect individuals. Through these technologies, the urban space appears as activated, almost sentient. This activation generates two contrasting visions: on the one hand, a neo-cybernetic ambition to steer the city in the most efficient way; and on the other, a more bottom-up, participative approach in which empowered individuals invent new modes of cooperation. A thorough analysis of these two trends reveals them to be complementary. The Smart City of the near future will result from their mutual adjustment. In this process, urban space plays a decisive role. Smart Cities are contemporary with a 'spatial turn' of the digital. Based on key technological developments like geo-localisation and augmented reality, the rising importance of space explains the strategic role of mapping in the evolution of the urban experience. Throughout this exploration of some of the key dimensions of the Smart City, this book constantly moves from the technological to the spatial as well as from a critical assessment of existing experiments to speculations on the rise of a new form of collective intelligence. In the future, cities will become smarter in a much more literal way than what is often currently assumed. show less
Apr 15, 2023Portuguese (Brazil)
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