Nicanor studies the history and theory of modern architecture. He is interested in the dissemination of French academic culture, particularly in Latin America, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His work focuses on object´s political agency within the framework of cultural transfers, and the ways in which architecture relates to other products of visual culture: to works of art, to ornamentation, and the production of images.  

Nicanor received an MA in Social Sciences from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales , an MA in Cultural Heritage from Eötvös Loránd University, and a BA in History of Art from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.