Philippe Rahm
Philippe Rahm is a Swiss architect based in Paris, where his practice, Philippe Rahm architectes, is located. He graduated from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and holds a doctorate from the Université de Paris-Saclay. His work operates from the physiological to the meteorological, and has gained international recognition within the context of sustainability.
His projects include Taichung Central Park in Taiwan, inaugurated in 2020 with Mosbach paysagistes; a climatic urban study for a 100-hectare new district in Aix-en-Provence completed in 2024; and a study for the implementation of 20,000 heat pumps on the roofs of the City of Geneva in 2025. He is the author of Climatic Architecture, The Anthropocene Style (2023), and Natural History of Architecture, forthcoming in 2026.
Alongside practice, Rahm has an extensive academic career, having taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia universities, as well as at HEAD–Geneva and ENSA Versailles. He has participated in numerous biennials, including Venice (2025), Tbilisi (2024), Madrid (2024), Chicago (2023), and Tallinn (2022). In 2025, he is co-curator of the architecture biennales in Île-de-France, Versailles, and Saint-Étienne, as well as the Saint-Étienne Design Biennale. He is a Knight of the Monaco Order of Cultural Merit and a recipient of the Silver Medal of the French Academy of Architecture.
