Jacques Lucan (21 December 1947 – 8 October 2023) was a French academic, architect, and historian.
Biography
Born on 21 December 1947, Lucan earned an in
Paris
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in 1972. He served as editor-in-chief of the magazine ' from 1978 to 1988. He joined the
École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville
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in 1981 and taught theories on architectural composition and urban theories and doctrines in transformation of cities. He created publications on his research on criticisms, theories, and history of architecture and was the author of several books.
In 1993, Lucan began his participation in town planning competitions, creating four housing buildings and a library in Paris and urban developments in
ĂŽle d'Yeu
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. In October 1997, he became a professor of architectural theory at the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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(EPFL). From 2006 to 2008, he directed the "Architecture, ville, histoire" doctoral program at the EPFL's Faculty of Natural Environment. In 1998, he co-founded the École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires à Marne-la-Vallée, which became the
École d'Architecture Marne-la-Vallée
The École d'architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est (formerly ''École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires à Marne-la-Vallée''), Éav&t for short, is a fully accredited state-financed architecture school located i ...
, and taught there until 2020.
Jacques Lucan died on 8 October 2023, at the age of 75.
Works
*''Le Corbusier, une encyclopédie'' (1987)
*''France Architecture 1965-1988'' (1989)
*''OMA - Rem Koolhaas. Pour une culture de la congestion'' (1990)
*''Eau et gaz Ă tous les Ă©tages - Paris, cent ans de logement'' (1992)
*''Paris des faubourgs - Formation-transformation'' (1996)
*''Matière d'art - A Matter of Art. Architecture contemporaine en Suisse'' (2001)
*''Architecture en France (1940-2000). Histoire et théories'' (2001)
*''Fernand Pouillon architecte - Pantin, Montrouge, Boulogne-Billancourt, Meudon-la-ForĂŞt'' (2003)
*''Forme forte. Écrits/Schriften 1972-2002'' (2003)
*"Des lignes de fuite, entretien avec Jacques Lucan" (2008)
*"Langage de la critique, critique du langage. La transition postmoderne" (2009)
*"Les faubourgs ou l’ambiguïté urbaine" (2009)
*''Composition, non-composition. Architecture et théories, XIXe-XXe siècles'' (2009)
*''Où va la ville aujourd'hui ? Formes urbaines et mixités'' (2012)
*''Précisions sur un état présent de l'architecture'' (2015)
*''Habiter: Villes et Architecture'' (2021)
References
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1947 births
2023 deaths
20th-century French architects
21st-century French architects
French academics
French historians
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne