Marc Frochaux was trained as an art historian at the University of Lausanne and as an architect at the Federal School of Technology of Lausanne and Zurich (EPFL, ETH). Apart from his independent activity as an architect, he has worked as a scientific assistant for the Archives de la Construction Moderne at EPFL, published an architectural guide to Lausanne in 2009, and occasionally writes reviews for the architecture magazine Werk, Bauen und Wohnen. He has been a doctoral student at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) since October 2013, where he is researching environmentalism in France around 1968.