François Quintin studied art history at the École du Louvre and at the university, as well as curatorial training at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In 1994, he became one of the curators of the Fondation Cartier, a position he held until 2000. The following year, he was appointed director of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, which he left in 2007 to take over as director of the Xippas Gallery. In 2011, he launched the Lafayette Anticipations project, Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette with Guillaume Houzé, director of image for the Galeries Lafayette group. After several years at the head of the prefiguration and conceptualization of the Foundation's project, largely based on production assistance, he is the artistic director of the venue which opens its doors in 2016. In 2019, he joins the Direction générale de la création artistique (DGCA) at the Ministry of Culture.

In his words, Jaque sees architecture as a 'political and non-ideological activity', that is to say, as a constant practice of negotiation between various actors.

Architect Andrés Jaque is currently living and working between New York where he teaches (Columbia and Princeton universities) and Madrid where his architecture agency, the Office for Political Innovation, is based.

Jaque and his architecture agency undertake both commercial commissions such as residential housing, contemporary art fairs (e.g. ARCO in Madrid), the redevelopment of public spaces, as well as conceptual projects ranging from videos, performances, and multimedia installations.

His exhibition Sex and the So-Called City was held at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. Addressing the legacy of the eponymous cult TV series of the early 2000s, Jaque examined in this exhibition the then radical urban change experienced by New York under mayor Michael Bloomberg. It is part of a series of works, including Pornified Homes (Oslo Architectural Triennal, 2016) and Intimate Strangers (London Design Museum, 2017) through which Jaque and his office explore the way real estate and online interactions are producing new forms of sexualized urbanisms.

In 2014, Andrés Jaque received the Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale and in 2016, he was awarded with the Frederick Kiesler Architecture and Art Prize. Jaque co-curated the Manifesta 12 biennal in Palermo, together with Ippolito Pestellini, Bregtje van der Haak, and Mirjam Varandinis.

In 2018, he also participated in the show The Center Cannot Hold at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.