About
Director of research at the CNRS, where he founded the international research group "Savoirs artistiques et traités d'art de la Renaissance aux Lumières". He is the author of a considerable body of work on architectural theory, the question of technique and the contemporary challenges of the productive system and its transformations.
Latest publication
Saving sustainable development
- Interview with Pierre Caye,
- conducted by Franck Damour
In Études (2023/10 October)
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Mathematics and Knowledge during the Renaissance
- By Pierre Caye
- and Thierry Gontier
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2006/2 Volume 59)
Bigness is Business
- By Pierre Caye,
- Translated from the French by Susan Pickford
In Le Visiteur (2018/1 No 23)
Saving sustainable development
- Interview with Pierre Caye,
- conducted by Franck Damour
In Études (2023/10 October)
Worksite without a Master: Encyclopédie and the Question of Technique
- By Pierre Caye
In Dix-huitième siècle (2009/1 No 41)
“Architectura est scientia”
- By Pierre Caye,
- Translated from the French by Susan Pickford
In Le Visiteur (2021/1 No 26)
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Articles
Saving sustainable development
- Interview with Pierre Caye,
- conducted by Franck Damour
In Études (2023/10 October)
The Machine of Machines
- By Pierre Caye,
- Translated from the French by Timothy Stroud
In Le Visiteur (2022/1 No 27)
“Architectura est scientia”
- By Pierre Caye,
- Translated from the French by Susan Pickford
In Le Visiteur (2021/1 No 26)
Architecture as Machine
Economy, Time, Effort
- By Pierre Caye,
- Translated from the French by Susan Pickford
In Le Visiteur (2020/1 No 25)
Olga Medvedkova, ed., Pierre le Grand et ses livres : Les arts et les sciences de l’Europe dans la bibliothèque du Tsar
In Cahiers du monde russe (2017/4 Vol. 58)
Bigness is Business
- By Pierre Caye,
- Translated from the French by Susan Pickford
In Le Visiteur (2018/1 No 23)
"Because I Pretend to Be in a Country of Liberty": Félibien, or the Politics of Painting
In Dix-septième siècle (2012/1 No 254)
Worksite without a Master: Encyclopédie and the Question of Technique
In Dix-huitième siècle (2009/1 No 41)
Scientia sine arte nihil est. . . Palladian Architecture and Mathematics II
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2006/2 Volume 59)
Mathematics and Knowledge during the Renaissance
- By Pierre Caye
- and Thierry Gontier
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2006/2 Volume 59)
Bacon.
From Intelligence to Science
- By Pierre Caye
- and Thierry Gontier
In Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger (2003/1 Volume 128)