Pierre Caye

Pierre Caye, Director of Research in Classical Humanities at CNRS, has devoted much of his research to Vitruvius and Vitruvianism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. His published works include Le savoir de Palladio: architecture, metaphysique et politique dans le Venise du Cinquecento (Klincksieck, 1995, which received the French Academy's Eugene Carriere Prize), and Empire et decor: le vitruvianisme et la question de la technique a l'age humaniste et classique (Vrin, 1999). With...See more

Pierre Caye, Director of Research in Classical Humanities at CNRS, has devoted much of his research to Vitruvius and Vitruvianism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. His published works include Le savoir de Palladio: architecture, metaphysique et politique dans le Venise du Cinquecento (Klincksieck, 1995, which received the French Academy's Eugene Carriere Prize), and Empire et decor: le vitruvianisme et la question de la technique a l'age humaniste et classique (Vrin, 1999). With Francoise Choay, he co-published a new annotated and commented French translation of Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria with Editions du Seuil (2004). He also authored Morale et chaos, principes d'un agir sans fondement (Le Cerf, 2008 - which won the Academie des sciences morales et politiques' Gagner Prize). See less