Pierre Thiebaut studied architecture in France and in the USA (where Louis Kahn was one of his professors), and is also a graduate in planning of the Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris. Prior to his present activity as a writer of articles and books on architectural rehabilitation and teacher at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette, he was an Architecte des Batiments de France heading the Service Departemental du Patrimoine du Conseil General de Seine et Marne.