Education
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland 1993 is architect, principal in the office of Philippe Rahm architects, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability. In 2002, Philippe Rahm was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architectural Venice Biennale, Italy, and was one of the 25 Manifesto"s Architects of Aaron Betsky"s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale.
He has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide (Archilab, Orléans, France 2000.
San Francisco-MoMA 2001; Chromated Copper Arsenate Kitakyushu 2004. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003–2006 and 2007.
Manifesta 7, 2008. Louisiana museum, Denmark, 2009.
Guggenheim Museum, New-York 2010). In 2007, he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
Mr. Rahm was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (2000).
He has lectured widely, including at Cooper Union, Harvard School of Design, Bartlett School of Architecture University College London, University of California, Los Angeles and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. He is working on several private and public projects in France, England, Italy and Germany.
His recent work includes in 2010 the project of an office building of 13000 m2 in Louisiana Défense in France for the EPADESA. Convective apartments for the International Business Alliance in Hamburg, Germany. The White geology, a stage design for contemporary art in the Grand-Palais on the Champs-Elysées in Paris in 2009.
And a studio house for the artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in 2008.
He was Headmaster at the Associate of Arts School of Architecture in London in 2005-2006, Visiting professor in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland in 2004 and 2005, at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Lausanne in 2006 and 2007, at the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts of Copenhagen in 2009-2010, in Oslo at the AHO in 2010-2011. He was visiting professor at School of Architecture of Princeton University, United States of America, from 2011 to 2013.
In the Fall 2011 semester, Philippe was the Michale Fellow at the University at Buffalo - State University of New York.He was a visiting professor in BiArch ( Barcelona Institute Of Architecture) for 2011-2012 MBiArch program He starts to teach Architectural design at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard in 2014.
Since 2005, he is a member of the Artistic Council of the Foundation Prince Pierre in Monaco.