She has spent many years in the United State researching domestic architecture in the 1950s and the impact of the counter culture on French visiting architects. She teaches history of architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais. She lives in Paris. She worked for four years as a curator and researcher at the Pompidou Center. She has taught at the Bard Graduate center in NY in 2003 and 2007 and is currently a visiting scholar at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. She will be teaching at Williams College in the Spring of 2009. Professor Maniaque's book was originally published in French as Le Corbusier et les maisons Jaoul by Editions A. et J. Picard in 2005.