Pierre-Alain Croset gratuated in 1982 in Lausanne (EPFL). Assistant editor of the international magazine “Casabella” from 1982 to 1996 under the direction of Vittorio Gregotti, he published many critical works on modern and contemporary architecture. From 1985 to 1993 he was a collaborator of Luigi Snozzi at the Polytechnic School of Lausanne and in his office of Locarno. From 1995 he has worked as a professional architect in Brescia. Visiting professor at the Columbia University (New York) in 1994, in 1997 he won the position of full professor for architecture at the TU Graz. From 2002 to 2015 he has been professor for architectural and urban design at the Polytechnic School of Turin. From 2015 to 2018 he has been professor for architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiatong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. He is presently professor for architecture at the Polytechnic School of Milan.