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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Urban Infrastructure, Imagination and Politics", in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 42, n°2, March 2018, pp. 263-275.

This article argues for the importance of social imagination in the understanding of urban infras... more This article argues for the importance of social imagination in the understanding of urban infrastructures, especially those designed and built by engineers. It begins by defining social imagination as image-based systems of representation and values that are shared by various collective stakeholders concerned with infrastructure, such as engineers, but also politicians, administrators, operators, maintenance technicians and indeed users, and then introduces a tripartite model of infrastructure. Infrastructure is interpreted as the result of the interactions between a material basis, professional organizations and stabilized socio- technical practices, and social imagination. The notion of network is interpreted from such a perspective. Its dependence on imagination is outlined. Through two case studies, the nineteenth-century networked metropolis, epitomized by Haussmann’s Paris, and the rise of the contemporary smart city perspective, the role of social imagination in the conception of urban infrastructure is analyzed further. What seems at stake in the transition towards the smart city is the increased importance given to occurrences, events and scenarios as the basis for urban infrastructure regulation.

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Research paper thumbnail of Marie Veltz, Jonathan Rutherford, Antoine Picon, "Smart Urbanism and the Visibility and Reconfiguration of Infrastructure and Public Action in the French Cities of Issy-les-Moulineaux and Nice"

Marie Veltz, Jonathan Rutherford, Antoine Picon, "Smart Urbanism and the Visibility and Reconfigu... more Marie Veltz, Jonathan Rutherford, Antoine Picon, "Smart Urbanism and the Visibility and Reconfiguration of Infrastructure and Public Action in the French Cities of Issy-les-Moulineaux and Nice", in Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti (eds), Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, Milton Park, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, pp. 133-148.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "L'avènement de la ville intelligente", Sociétés, n°132 - 2016/2, pp. 9-24

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Research paper thumbnail of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence

As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver ... more 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 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.

The books 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 smart phones 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 reveal 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, the 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.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, Carlo Ratti, "Mapping the Future of Cities: Cartography, Urban Experience, and Subjectivity", New Geographies, n°9, 2017, pp. 64-67.

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Research paper thumbnail of Smart Cities: Théorie et critique d'un idéal auto-réalisateur

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "The limits of intelligence On the challenges faced by smart cities", in New Geographies, n° 7, 2015, "Geographies of information", pp. 77-83.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Urban Sensing: Toward a New Form of Collective Consciousness", in Humanizing Digital Reality: Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017, Springer Nature, Singapore, 2017, pp. 63-72.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Ville Numérique, Ville Evénement", Flux, Octobre-Décembre 2009, pp. 17-23

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Villes et systèmes d'information : de la naissance de l'urbanisme moderne à la smart city", Flux, "Systèmes d'information et gestion de l'urbain (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles)", n° 111-112, 2018, pp. 80-93.

La montée en puissance récente de la thématique de la ville intelligente ne doit pas faire oublie... more La montée en puissance récente de la thématique de la ville intelligente ne doit pas faire oublier l’ancienneté des relations entre villes et systèmes d’information. Cet article entreprend du même coup de replacer cette montée en puis- sance dans le cadre d’une histoire plus étendue qui débute à la charnière des XIXe et XXe siècles avec l’avènement de so- ciétés ayant recours à des quantités de plus en plus massives de données pour fonctionner. Il évoque ensuite le moment cybernétique et systémique des décennies 1950-1970 avant d’en venir aux questions soulevées par la thématique de la ville intelligente. À chacune de ces étapes, doctrines et pra- tiques urbaines se modifient en relation directe avec la ques- tion de la ville comme ensemble de systèmes d’informations.
This article shows how the recent rise of the smart city approach is actually rooted in a long history of the relations between cities and information systems. This history begins at the end of the 19th century, with the development of information-based societies. It continues during the period of cybernetics and systems theory which proved to be especially​ influential from the 1950s to the early 1970s. The issues raised by the smart city approach are discussed in the last part of the article. At each of these stages, doctrines and urban practices evolve in direct relation with the issue of the city as a set of information systems.

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Digital culture and architecture by Antoine Picon

Research paper thumbnail of "Dwelling in the Digital Age: Imagination, Experience, and Subjectivity

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Research paper thumbnail of Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions

Today’s explosive developments in digital technology have affected architecture and the urban lan... more Today’s explosive developments in digital technology have affected architecture and the urban landscape. Computer-aided design and digital simulation have led to new forms as well as to an increasingly strategic approach to architecture and urban development. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago. These new possibilities raise also numerous questions regarding the challenges that await the architectural discipline.

The book provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in architectural design and related fields. In four chapters the author systematically examines the influence of digital culture on architecture but also on the urban landscape.

SUMMARY

Introduction
People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview
Experiments in Form and Performance
From Tectonics to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality
The City in the Digital Sprawl
Conclusion: Material Continuity and the Design Practice

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Beyond Digital Avant-Gardes: The Materiality of Architecture and its Impact", in Architectural Design, vol. 90, n° 5, 2020, pp. 118-125.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Architectural Diagramming: From Abstraction to Materiality" (in Chinese and English), in Time + Architecture, 2016-5, pp. 14-21.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Digital Design Between Organic and Computational Temptations", in P. Lorenzo-Eiroa, A. Sprecher (ed.), Architecture in Formation: On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture, New York, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2013, pp. 93-99.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Digital Fabrication, Between Disruption and Nostalgia" in Chandler Ahrens, Aaron Sprecher (eds.), Instabilities and Potentialities: Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture, New York, Routledge, 2019, pp. 223-238.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Robots and Architecture: Experiments, Fiction, Epistemology", Architectural Design, May-June 2014, pp. 54-59.

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Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and the Virtual Towards a new Materiality?

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Research paper thumbnail of Arquitectura y virtualidad: Hacia una nueva condición material

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Urban Infrastructure, Imagination and Politics", in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 42, n°2, March 2018, pp. 263-275.

This article argues for the importance of social imagination in the understanding of urban infras... more This article argues for the importance of social imagination in the understanding of urban infrastructures, especially those designed and built by engineers. It begins by defining social imagination as image-based systems of representation and values that are shared by various collective stakeholders concerned with infrastructure, such as engineers, but also politicians, administrators, operators, maintenance technicians and indeed users, and then introduces a tripartite model of infrastructure. Infrastructure is interpreted as the result of the interactions between a material basis, professional organizations and stabilized socio- technical practices, and social imagination. The notion of network is interpreted from such a perspective. Its dependence on imagination is outlined. Through two case studies, the nineteenth-century networked metropolis, epitomized by Haussmann’s Paris, and the rise of the contemporary smart city perspective, the role of social imagination in the conception of urban infrastructure is analyzed further. What seems at stake in the transition towards the smart city is the increased importance given to occurrences, events and scenarios as the basis for urban infrastructure regulation.

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Research paper thumbnail of Marie Veltz, Jonathan Rutherford, Antoine Picon, "Smart Urbanism and the Visibility and Reconfiguration of Infrastructure and Public Action in the French Cities of Issy-les-Moulineaux and Nice"

Marie Veltz, Jonathan Rutherford, Antoine Picon, "Smart Urbanism and the Visibility and Reconfigu... more Marie Veltz, Jonathan Rutherford, Antoine Picon, "Smart Urbanism and the Visibility and Reconfiguration of Infrastructure and Public Action in the French Cities of Issy-les-Moulineaux and Nice", in Andrew Karvonen, Federico Cugurullo, Federico Caprotti (eds), Inside Smart Cities: Place, Politics and Urban Innovation, Milton Park, Abingdon, Routledge, 2019, pp. 133-148.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "L'avènement de la ville intelligente", Sociétés, n°132 - 2016/2, pp. 9-24

La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que d... more La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.

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Research paper thumbnail of Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence

As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver ... more 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 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.

The books 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 smart phones 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 reveal 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, the 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.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, Carlo Ratti, "Mapping the Future of Cities: Cartography, Urban Experience, and Subjectivity", New Geographies, n°9, 2017, pp. 64-67.

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Research paper thumbnail of Smart Cities: Théorie et critique d'un idéal auto-réalisateur

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "The limits of intelligence On the challenges faced by smart cities", in New Geographies, n° 7, 2015, "Geographies of information", pp. 77-83.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Urban Sensing: Toward a New Form of Collective Consciousness", in Humanizing Digital Reality: Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017, Springer Nature, Singapore, 2017, pp. 63-72.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Ville Numérique, Ville Evénement", Flux, Octobre-Décembre 2009, pp. 17-23

ABSTRACT

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Villes et systèmes d'information : de la naissance de l'urbanisme moderne à la smart city", Flux, "Systèmes d'information et gestion de l'urbain (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles)", n° 111-112, 2018, pp. 80-93.

La montée en puissance récente de la thématique de la ville intelligente ne doit pas faire oublie... more La montée en puissance récente de la thématique de la ville intelligente ne doit pas faire oublier l’ancienneté des relations entre villes et systèmes d’information. Cet article entreprend du même coup de replacer cette montée en puis- sance dans le cadre d’une histoire plus étendue qui débute à la charnière des XIXe et XXe siècles avec l’avènement de so- ciétés ayant recours à des quantités de plus en plus massives de données pour fonctionner. Il évoque ensuite le moment cybernétique et systémique des décennies 1950-1970 avant d’en venir aux questions soulevées par la thématique de la ville intelligente. À chacune de ces étapes, doctrines et pra- tiques urbaines se modifient en relation directe avec la ques- tion de la ville comme ensemble de systèmes d’informations.
This article shows how the recent rise of the smart city approach is actually rooted in a long history of the relations between cities and information systems. This history begins at the end of the 19th century, with the development of information-based societies. It continues during the period of cybernetics and systems theory which proved to be especially​ influential from the 1950s to the early 1970s. The issues raised by the smart city approach are discussed in the last part of the article. At each of these stages, doctrines and urban practices evolve in direct relation with the issue of the city as a set of information systems.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Dwelling in the Digital Age: Imagination, Experience, and Subjectivity

Footprint, 2023

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Research paper thumbnail of Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions

Today’s explosive developments in digital technology have affected architecture and the urban lan... more Today’s explosive developments in digital technology have affected architecture and the urban landscape. Computer-aided design and digital simulation have led to new forms as well as to an increasingly strategic approach to architecture and urban development. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago. These new possibilities raise also numerous questions regarding the challenges that await the architectural discipline.

The book provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in architectural design and related fields. In four chapters the author systematically examines the influence of digital culture on architecture but also on the urban landscape.

SUMMARY

Introduction
People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview
Experiments in Form and Performance
From Tectonics to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality
The City in the Digital Sprawl
Conclusion: Material Continuity and the Design Practice

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Beyond Digital Avant-Gardes: The Materiality of Architecture and its Impact", in Architectural Design, vol. 90, n° 5, 2020, pp. 118-125.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Architectural Diagramming: From Abstraction to Materiality" (in Chinese and English), in Time + Architecture, 2016-5, pp. 14-21.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Digital Design Between Organic and Computational Temptations", in P. Lorenzo-Eiroa, A. Sprecher (ed.), Architecture in Formation: On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture, New York, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2013, pp. 93-99.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Digital Fabrication, Between Disruption and Nostalgia" in Chandler Ahrens, Aaron Sprecher (eds.), Instabilities and Potentialities: Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture, New York, Routledge, 2019, pp. 223-238.

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Research paper thumbnail of Arquitectura y virtualidad: Hacia una nueva condición material

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Arquitectura y Virtualidad: Hacia una nueva condición material", in ARQ: Arquitectura Diseño Urbanismo Chile, n°63, Agosto 2006, pp. 10-15.

A menudo, el desarrollo de los medios digitales en cuanto herramien-tas de diseño es presentado c... more A menudo, el desarrollo de los medios digitales en cuanto herramien-tas de diseño es presentado como amenaza a una de las dimensiones esenciales de la arquitectura: el factor concreto de la construcción y sus técnicas (es decir, su materialización). Un ejemplo es la preocupación manifestada por Kenneth Frampton en sus últimos escritos, comen-zando por Studies in tectonic culture. A pesar de los descargos expuestos por William Mitchell (Beckmann, 1998) y otros autores, se trata de una preocupación perfectamente entendible, dada la naturaleza altamente formalista de la producción de muchos arquitectos digitales. El diseño basado en las herramientas computacionales a menudo parece negar la dimensión material de la arquitectura y su profunda relación con el trío peso-empuje-resistencia. En el monitor de un computador, las formas parecen flotar libremente, sin más restricciones que las que imponen la imaginación del diseñador y las posibilidades del software. Hay algo pro-fundamente inquietante en esa aparente libertad, que parece cuestionar nuestros supuestos más fundamentales respecto a la naturaleza de la disciplina arquitectónica. Sin embargo, ¿debemos suponer que el estado actual del diseño asistido por computador está estableciendo un estándar definitivo? Conside-rando que el diseño digital está aún en su primera infancia, habría que ser precavido en no aventurarse con conclusiones apresuradas basadas en aspectos que aún son pasajeros en él. Frampton y otros de sus detractores tal vez asumen su condición actual como la definitiva, tomando dema-siado en serio aspectos que aún están en evolución y subestimando de paso la verdadera pregunta que emerge en este escenario en formación. La presente tendencia a cierta inmaterialidad, o más bien una actitud a menudo simplista respecto a los materiales, puede por cierto ser pasa-jera. Es más: lejos de ser puesta en peligro por el uso generalizado del computador y el desarrollo de ambientes virtuales, la materialidad pro-bablemente permanecerá como uno de los aspectos fundamentales de la producción arquitectónica. Se podría además especular si realmente el uso del computador, o el de sus extensiones como parte de una web, representan un alejamiento sustancial de los medios tradicionales de la representación arquitectónica; en muchos sentidos, los dibujos bidi-mensionales producidos a mano no son más matéricos que los generados a través de un computador. La abstracción inherente a la representación arquitectónica no necesariamente implica carencias materiales en su posterior realización.

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Research paper thumbnail of Culture numérique et architecture : une introduction

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "L'architecture saisie par le numérique : théorie, histoire, archéologie", in Revue de l'art, n° 186/2014-4, pp. 83-89.

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Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a ‘crime’ by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacu... more Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a ‘crime’ by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubt that these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable from innovations in computer technology. The proliferation of developments in design software has enabled architects to experiment afresh with texture, colour, pattern and topology.
Though inextricably linked with digital tools and culture, Antoine Picon argues that some significant traits in ornament persist from earlier Western architectural traditions. These he defines as the ‘subjective’ – the human interaction that ornament requires in both its production and its reception – and the political. Contrary to the message conveyed by the founding fathers of modern architecture, traditional ornament was not meant only for pleasure. It conveyed vital information about the designation of buildings as well as about the rank of their owners. As such, it participated in the expression of social values, hierarchies and order. By bringing previous traditions in ornament under scrutiny, Picon makes us question the political issues at stake in today’s ornamental revival. What does it tell us about present-day culture? Why are we presently so fearful of meaning in architecture? Could it be that by steering so vehemently away from symbolism, contemporary architecture is evading any explicit contribution to collective values?

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, introduction à Lucie Fléjou, Michaël Decrossas (dir.), Ornements XVe-XIXe siècles Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque de l'INHA collections Jacques Doucet, Paris, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Mare & Martin, 2014, pp. 12-20.

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Publié dans Anne-Laure Carré, Marie-Sophie Corcy, Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère, Liliane Hilair... more Publié dans Anne-Laure Carré, Marie-Sophie Corcy, Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez (dir.), Les Expositions universelles en France au XIXe siècle Techniques publics patrimoines, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2012, pp. 37-47.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "La Religion saint-simonienne", in Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, volume 87, n°1, janvier-mars 2003, pp. 23-37.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "From Ownership to Authorship: A Historical Perspective", Architectural Design, "Digital Property: Open Source Architecture", vol. 86, n°5, 2016, pp. 36-41.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Architecture and technology : Two centuries of creative tension", in J.-L. Cohen, G. Martin Moeller Jr (dir.), Liquid stone New architecture in concrete, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, pp. 8-19.

As various architects, theorists, and historians have pointed out, no material has been more clos... more As various architects, theorists, and historians have pointed out, no material has been more closely associated with the origins and development of modern architecture than concrete. This status is partly linked to the fact that concrete seemed to epitomize the relations between modern architecture and technology, relations that were seen as crucial by the founding fathers of the modern movement.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Architecture, Materiality and Politics: Sensations, Symbols, Situations and Decors", in Duncan Bell, Bernardo Zacka (ed.), Political Theory and Architecture, London, Oxford, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 277-294.

Antoine Picon, "Architecture, Materiality and Politics: Sensations, Symbols, Situations and Decors", in Duncan Bell, Bernardo Zacka (ed.), Political Theory and Architecture, London, Oxford, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 277-294.

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Research paper thumbnail of LA RECHERCHE PAR LE PROJET, OU L'ARCHITECTURE SUR LE POINT DE PARLER

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "La matérialité de l'architecture", ArchiSTORM, n°90, mai-juin 2018, pp. 4-7.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "The Freestanding Column in Eighteenth-Century Religious Architecture", in L. Daston (ed.), Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science, New York, Zone Books, 2004, pp. 67-99.

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Research paper thumbnail of Charles-François Mandar (1757-1844) ou l'architecture dans ses détails

Revue De L Art, 1995

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Un Rationalisme hanté: Notes sur la Pensée Structurelle de Viollet-le-Duc", in L. de Finance, J.-M. Leniaud (ed.), Viollet-le-Duc: Les Visions d'un Architecte, Paris, Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, Editions Norma, 2014, pp. 100-107.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Dom-ino : Archetype and Fiction", in Log, n°30, Winter 2014, pp. 179-176.

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Research paper thumbnail of Le projet, la violence et l'histoire : A propos de la mise en accusation de Le Corbusier, D'Architectures, 241, 15 décembre 2015-16 janvier 2016, pp. 24-27.

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Research paper thumbnail of "The Ghost of Architecture: The Project and its Codification"

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Architecture and Mathematics: Between Hubris and Restraint", Architectural Design, "Mathematics of Space", guest-edited by George L. Legendre, vol. 81, n°4, July-August 2011, pp. 28-35.

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Research paper thumbnail of Architektur und Wissenschaft : wissenschftliche Exaktheit oder produktives Missverständnis?

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Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and the Sciences: Scientific Accuracy or Productive Misunderstanding?

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Research paper thumbnail of Repenser les limites de l’architecture : un acte politique

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, “Constructing Landscape by Engineering Water”, in A. Berrizbeitia (ed.), Urban Landscape: Critical Concepts in the Built Environment, vol. 1, London: Routledge, 2015. pp. 257-266

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Research paper thumbnail of "Le naturel et l'efficace Art des jardins et culture technologique", in M. Mosser, Ph. Nys (dir.), Le jardin, art et lieu de mémoire, Paris, Les éditions de l'imprimeur, 1995, pp. 367-396.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Nature et ingénierie : le parc des Buttes-Chaumont", Romantisme, 2010/4, n°150, pp. 35-49.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "The Digital culture of landscape architecture", Harvard Design Magazine, n° 36, 2013, pp. 124-129, 180.

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A Paradoxical Contrast with Architecture Surprisingly enough, the diffusion of the computer and t... more A Paradoxical Contrast with Architecture Surprisingly enough, the diffusion of the computer and the rise of digital culture seem to have exerted a less dramatic influence on landscape architecture than on architecture. Part of the astonishment comes from the fact that the applications of computing to geography and landscape are as old, if not older, as those concerning architecture. Harvard's SYMAP mapping program, one of the major forerunners of present-day GIS systems, dates back to the 1960s, a time when computer-aided architectural design was still in its infancy.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "The History and Challenges of Industrialised Building in the 20th Century", in F. Graf, Y. Delemontey (dir.), Understanding and conserving industrialised and prefabricated architecture, Lausanne, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 2012, pp. 63-70, 49-62.

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Research paper thumbnail of Picon, A., 2012. L’Histoire de la construction: entre cadre culturels nationaux et problématiques Internationales. In Édifice & Artifice. Histoires constructives, edited by R. Carvais, A. Guillerme, V. Nègre and J. Sakarovitch. Paris : Picard, 45-51.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Can Structural Engineering Still Invent the Future?", in Maristella Casciato, Pippo Ciorra (eds), Technoscape: The Architecture of Engineers, Rome, MAXXI, 2022, pp. 58-69.

Antoine Picon, "Can Structural Engineering Still Invent the Future?", 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Les batailles de Paris Retour sur Quelques Débats-Clés", in Alexandre Labasse, Marianne Carrega (eds), La Beauté d’une Ville: Controverses Esthétiques et Transition Ecologique à Paris, Paris, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 2021, pp. 66-77.

A history of some of the major debates regarding the aesthetics of the city of Paris

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, Picon A., Imaginaires de l'efficacite, pensee technique et rationalisation, Réseaux 2001/5, n° 109, p. 18-50.

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Research paper thumbnail of David Theodore, Peter Galison, Antoine Picon. A strange reconciliation: A conversation about architecture and science with Peter Galison and Antoine Picon. . TARP Architecture Manual, 2012, pp.10-15.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Le temps du cyborg dans la ville territoire Vers de nouvelles métaphores de l'urbain", in Les Annales de la Recherche Urbaine, n° 77, décembre 1997, pp. 72-77.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Ornament of the City", in Preston Scott Cohen, Lightfal, Genealogy of a Museum: Herta and Paul Amir Building Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Milan, Skira, 2016, pp. 29-31.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "De l'utilité des travaux publics en France au XIXe siècle", in Culture technique, n° 26, 1992, pp. 122-127.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Gestes ouvriers, opérations et processus techniques. La Vision du travail des encyclopédistes", in Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, n°13, octobre 1992, pp. 131-147.

The Encyclopédistes' Image of Work. Despite the weaknesses of the technical information collected... more The Encyclopédistes' Image of Work. Despite the weaknesses of the technical information collected by Diderot and his team, the Encyclopédie reveals a complete renewal of the vision of productive work and of the categories for describing and organizing it. The Encyclopedists' rehabilitation of arts and crafts was linked to an implacable criticism of corporations, leading to the possibility of pure work freed from all shackles, which scientists and engineers sought to rationalize. The interest in productive activity is also linked to sensualist philosophy and the analytical method, which enabled them to understand manufacturing processes, to decompose and recompose them in the same way as language and science. Thus we see the triad gesture/operation/process. While the Encyclopédie' s strictly technological contribution was limited, this new architecture was to have a long-lasting influence on reflection concerning manufactures.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "La voie Pompidou et le devenir de Paris", in D’Architectures, n° 206, mars 2012, pp. 34-39.

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Les projets d’Alger et la dimension de l’infrastructure" in Jean-Lucien Bonillo (dir.), Le Corbusier Visions d’Alger, Paris, Editions de la Villette, 2012, pp. 130-145.

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Research paper thumbnail of La passerelle de Solférino

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Research paper thumbnail of Architecture as performative art

... Maya Levy, Osnat Linder-Assouline, Dafna Matok, Dana Mor, Hannah Naveh, Ruth Palmon, Ludmila ... more ... Maya Levy, Osnat Linder-Assouline, Dafna Matok, Dana Mor, Hannah Naveh, Ruth Palmon, Ludmila Petlitski, Neriya Ravid, Ayala Ronel, Slavik Rotenberg ... These factors had been pointed out by Rem Koolhaas in his Delirious New York manifesto.4 Since the publication of the ...

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Research paper thumbnail of Fuller's avatars : a view from the present

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Research paper thumbnail of Does our technology make the past irrelevant to our future ? Beyond techno-determinism and social constructivism

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Research paper thumbnail of Glass at the limits

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Research paper thumbnail of Corps, genres, techniques, identités

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Research paper thumbnail of "Architecture and Public Space Between Reassurance and Threat"

Journal of Architectural Education, 2008

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Research paper thumbnail of The Voie Georges Pompidou and the Future of Paris

Mohsen Mostafavi (ed.), In the Life of Cities, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, "Espaces publics, espaces dangereux", "Public spaces : dangerous spaces", in Géocarrefour, vol. 76, n° 1, 2001, pp. 23-26.

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Research paper thumbnail of La ville territoire des cyborgs (Antoine Picon)

Flux, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Marseille Ville et Port

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Research paper thumbnail of Antoine Picon, La ville territoire des cyborgs, Paris, Les Editions de l'Imprimeur, 1998, 113 p.

La grande ville contemporaine, cette nappe d'infrastructures et d'équipements qui s'étend à perte... more La grande ville contemporaine, cette nappe d'infrastructures et d'équipements qui s'étend à perte de vue, désoriente. On la dit chaotique. Mais elle est en même temps le résultat de logiques socio-économiques et techniques qui ne doivent pas grand chose au hasard. Est-elle aussi désordonnée que cela ? Ne serait-ce pas plutôt qu'elle échappe aux grilles de lecture traditionnelles de l'urbanité ? Un autre point de vue, un nouveau type de regard s'avèrent nécessaires afin de l'apprivoiser. Tout regard présuppose un sujet. La ville idéale de la Renaissance était inséparable de cet homme générique, animal doué de raison, microcosme ordonnateur, dont la perspective cherchait à codifier la vision. Dans cet essai, le cyborg tient un rôle comparable, s'agissant cette fois d'explorer les complexités de la ville territoire d'aujourd'hui. Hybride d'homme et de machine, individu parfait parce que rendu pleinement autonome par la technologie, le cyborg est bien sûr une fiction. Cette fiction n'en permet pas moins d'analyser des essentiels de la grande ville d'aujourd'hui, avant de se pencher sur certains aspects de son architecture. L'essai comprend quatre chapitres. Le premier porte sur les caractéristiques générales de la ville territoire et sur le type de sociabilité qu'elle implique entre les hommes, ces cyborgs en puissance. Un second chapitre traite des liens étroits qui unissent la ville et l'univers de la technologie contemporaine. Ces liens sont à l'origine du choix de la figure du cyborg dans cet essai. Le troisième chapitre est centré sur la transformation progressive de l'univers technologique en un environnement, une sorte de paysage fondamentalement différent de celui auquel nous avait habitué la révolution industrielle. Le quatrième chapitre, de loin le plus important, se recentre sur les question d'aménagement et d'architecture au travers de démarches et d'oeuvres comme celles de Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas ou Jean Nouvel.

/ Contemporary cities, these seamless webs of infrastructures, plants and housings, are disconcerting. They are often said to be chaotic. But they are also the result of social, economical and technological processes that are in no way uncertain. Given these premises, one may very well wonder whether they are really disordered and chaotic. The basic assumption of this essay is that they simply cannot be understood in a traditional frame of thought. A new vision is necessary in order to decipher them.
A new vision is generally synonymous with a new type of subject. The ideal Renaissance city was designed for a generic human being, whose way of seeing things was codified by perspective. In this essay, the cyborg is supposed to play the same role in relation to the complexities of contemporary cities, boundless cities that look more and more like urban territories. As an hybrid between man and machine, cyborg is of course fictional. Already used by philosophers and historians such as Donna Haraway or Paul Edwards, this fiction is nevertheless revealing.
The essay is divided in four parts. The first one deals with the general characteristics of contemporary urban territories and the type of sociability they imply. The second one is devoted to the links between cities and contemporary technology, from computers to videogames. Those links explain the choice made of the cyborg as the prototype of a new urban figure. The third part is centered on the gradual transformation of technology into a kind of environment, a landscape very different indeed from the traditional industrial context. The fourth part, by far the most important, deals with some contemporary trends in urban planning and architecture.

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Research paper thumbnail of La Matérialité de l'architecture, Marseille, Parenthèses, 2018, 142 p.

L'architecture travaille la matière afin de la rendre expressive. Elle se heurte ce faisant à son... more L'architecture travaille la matière afin de la rendre expressive. Elle se heurte ce faisant à son obstination muette qu'elle tente de dépasser. Partant de ce constat, ce livre se propose de l'interpréter à la lumière de la notion de matérialité envisagée comme le rapport que nous entretenons avec les phénomènes sensibles, les matériaux et les objets. Notre subjectivité d'êtres humains se constitue pour partie au travers de cette rencontre avec toutes ces "choses" qui tombent immédiatement sous le sens. Par leur intermédiaire, l'architecture contribue à la création d'un monde destiné spécifiquement aux hommes. L'interprétation de la matérialité a considérablement évolué de Vitruve à aujourd'hui. Son évolution permet de lire différemment l'histoire de l'architecture et de mieux comprendre certains enjeux actuels, comme ceux qui s'attachent à la révolution numérique.

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Research paper thumbnail of De l'Espace au Territoire: L'Aménagement en France XVIe-XXe Siècles

Paris, Presses de l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1997.

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