Jacques Lucan

Born on 21 December 1947, Lucan earned an Architecture Diploma of the French Government [fr] in Paris in 1972. He served as editor-in-chief of the magazine Architecture Mouvement Continuité [fr] from 1978 to 1988. He joined the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in 1981 and taught theories on architectural composition and urban theories and doctrines in transformation of cities.^[2] He created publications on his research on criticisms, theories, and history of architecture and was the author of several books.^{[citation needed]}

In 1993, Lucan began his participation in town planning competitions, creating four housing buildings and a library in Paris and urban developments in Île d'Yeu. In October 1997, he became a professor of architectural theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).^[3] From 2006 to 2008, he directed the "Architecture, ville, histoire" doctoral program at the EPFL's Faculty of Natural Environment.^[4] 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, and taught there until 2020.

Jacques Lucan died on 8 October 2023, at the age of 75.^[5]

• Le Corbusier, une encyclopédie (1987)
• France Architecture 1965-1988 (1989)
• OMA - Rem Koolhaas. Pour une culture de la congestion (1990)
• Eau et gaz à tous les étages - 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-Forêt (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)