Emmanuel Petit

Emmanuel joined JPA S.A. in 2014 as a Partner, directing projects at both architectural and urban scale; he has been a member of the ‘Ordre des Architectes et Ingénieurs’ since 2009. Emmanuel has taught architectural design and theory at Yale University (YSoA), Harvard University (GSD), The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, and the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) as Associate Professor, Visiting Associate Professor, and inaugural Sir Banister Fletcher Professor. He has lectured internationally, including at the Tate Britain in London, the Museum of Modern Arts in New York, the Venice Biennale, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago, and is author and editor of five books on the theory of postmodern architecture and on formalism with Yale University Press and Routledge. He received his Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts in architecture history and theory from Princeton University (2006, 2001), and his Master of Science in Architecture from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH, 1998). With Ralitza Petit, he is co-founding partner of the think-tank EPISTEME.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Princeton University (2001 — 2006)
• Master of Arts - MA Princeton University (1999 — 2001)
• Dipl. arch. ETH ETH Zurich (1992 — 1999)

Companies

• Administrateur-délégué JEAN PETIT ARCHITECTES S.A. (2014)
• Visiting Professor EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) (2018 — 2020)
• Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professor of Architecture The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2014 — 2015)
• Associate Professor for Architecture Yale University (2001 — 2014)
• Visiting Associate Professor Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011 — 2011)