Pierre Francastel taught at the Ecole Practique des Haute Etudes. His works include Les Architectes celebres, Etudes de sociologie de l'art, Figure et le lieu, and Peinture et societe. Yve-Alain Bois studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes under the guidance of Roland Barthes and Hubert Damisch. A founder of the French journal Macula, Bois is currently a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

"An extraordinary work." Jeremy Melvin The Architects' Journal