Rahm, Philippe

Philippe Rahm is a Swiss architect who graduated from Lausanne's Ecole Polytechnique Federale in 1993. He obtained a PhD in Architecture at the University Paris-Saclay in 2019, and founded his agency Philippe Rahm architects in Paris in 2008. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has gained an international following in the context of sustainable development. In 2011, with Catherine Mosbach and Ricky Liu, he won the international competition for the Taichung Central Park and its buildings, inaugurated in April 2020. In 2017, with Nicolas Dorval-Bory, he won the competition for the development of the Agora of the Maison de la Radio in Paris. In 2019, with OMA, he obtained the project for the urban redevelopment of Milan's Farini district in Italy. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard and Columbia University since 2010, and now teaches at Cornell. He has been invited by numerous architecture biennials (Venice in 2002 and 2008, Seoul and Chicago in 2017, Sharjah in 2019). His main books are “Constructed Atmospheres ”(2014), “Form Follows Climate” (2017), “Le Jardin météorologique” (2019) and “Histoire naturelle de l'architecture” (2021).