Born in 1932 in Paris
Paul Virilio is a professor at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, where he was director and president from 1968 to 1998. An urban planner and essayist specialized in strategic questions about new technologies, Paul Virilio has written a number of major works and participated in numerous publications in France and abroad.
He has spent much of his time working on notions of speed, exodus, the disappearance of geographic space, and the pollution of distances. In 2003, he collaborated with the Fondation Cartier on the exhibition Unknown Quantity.
