Born in Casablanca in 1941. Studied philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1960 to 1964. A colleague of Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu in the realm of cultural sociology from 1965-67. He then taught the sociology of architecture at the Beaux-Arts in Paris until 1970. He was actively involved in the movement of May ’68. In 1971, he School of Architecture at Grenoble in order to pursue the study of philosophy and history. His work centres on the Renaissance and Baroque periods and the beginning of the modern movement. The urban forms that he is increasingly preoccupied by: Pienza, Ferrara, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chandigarh.