Philippe Rahm
Philippe Rahm Dipl. EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland 1993 is a principal architect in the office of Philippe Rahm architects, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological scale of the body to the climatic scale of the city has received an international audience in the context of sustainability.
Biography
In 2002, Rahm was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architectural Venice Biennale in Italy. He was also one of twenty international architects selected for the 2008 Venice Biennale, which was curated by Aaron Betsky.He has participated in a number of exhibitions worldwide, including. 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. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Artistic Council of the in Monaco. He has lectured widely, including at Cooper Union, Harvard School of Design, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, UCLA and the ETH Zürich. He has worked 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 La Défense in France for the EPADESA; convective apartments for the IBA 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.
Academic experience
He was Headmaster at the AA School of Architecture in London in 2005-2006, Visiting professor in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland in 2004 and 2005, at the ETH 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 , USA, from 2011 to 2013. In the Fall 2011 semester, Philippe was the Michale Fellow at the .He was a visiting professor in BiArch for 2011-12 MBiArch program. He starts to teach at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard in 2014.He is a tenured teacher at the ENSAV, national school of architecture of Versailles in France.Awards
In 2011, Rahm won the international competition with mosbach paysagistes for the :zh-tw:中央公園 |Jade Eco Park, a 70 hectares park in Taichung, Taiwan, which opened to the public in 2019. In 2019, together with OMA, he also won the urban planning competition for Farini and San Cristoforo in Milan.| Year | Award | Result | Organization | Ref |
| 2017 | Order of Cultural Merit | Insignia of Knight | Principality of Monaco | |
| 2019 | Prix d'Architecture | Silver Medal | Académie d'architecture | |
| 2016 | Design Award, Best Bright Ideas, ‘Spectral Light’ | Won | Wallpaper* | |
| 2003 | Architecture | Won | Swiss Art Awards | |
| 2008 | Iakov Chernikhov Prize | Top ten | ICIF | |
| 2009 | Ordos Prize | Nominated | City of Ordos | |
| 2009 | Won | Industries Françaises de l’Ameublement, France | ||
| 2010 | Iakov Chernikhov Prize | Nominated | ICIF |