Nicolas Tixier is an architect, DR and HDR. He is a Professor of theory and design at The National School of Architecture of Grenoble and also teaches at Annecy Alpes School of Fine Art and the Grenoble Institute of Urbanism. He is a researcher at the CRESSON Laboratory (UMR AAU) and a member of the International Ambiances Network. He is a founding member of the BazarUrbain collective (winner of the Young French Urban Designers Award in 2007). From 2003 to 2010 he was responsible for scientific missions at the Bureau of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Since 2009, he has been president of the Grenoble Cinematheque. Since 2018, he has been director of the CRESSON and adjunct director of the UMR Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités. His current work focuses on the urban transect as an in situ practice, a mode of representation and a project "posture".