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Philippe Rahm
Architect EPFL
12 rue Chabanais
FR-75002 Paris
T : ++ 33 1 49 26 91 55
rahm@philipperahm.com
Curriculum vitae / short version
Philippe Rahm
Philippe Rahm, born in 1967 studied at the Federal
Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich. He obtained his architectural
degree in 1993. He was associated until 2004 with Jean-Gilles Décosterd
in the firm “Décosterd & Rahm, associés”.
He works currently in Paris (France) and Lausanne (Switzerland). In 2002,
he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in
Venice and is one of the 15 chapters of the Aaron Betsky’s 2008 Architectural
Venice Biennale. In 2007, he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre
for Architecture in Montreal. He has participated in a number of exhibitions
worldwide (Archilab 2000, SF-MoMA 2001, Museum of Modern Art of the City
of Paris 2001, Tirana Biennial 2001, Valencia Biennial 2003; Lisbon Biennale
2003, Graz Biennale 2003; CCA Kitakyushu 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2005,
Frac Centre, Orléans, Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg 2003-2006 and 2007)
Philippe Rahm was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome (2000). He was Head-Master
of Diploma Unit 13 at the AA School in London in 2005-2006, Visiting professor
at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts of Paris in 2003,
Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland in 2005 and 2006 and at
the ETH Lausanne in 2006 and 2007. He is Professor at the ECAL Lausanne and
teaches at the School of Architecture of Paris-Malaquais in Paris. He is
currently working on several private and public projects in France, Poland,
England, Italy and Austria.
Exhibitions (selection):
2008
Venice Biennale
2007
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (Group show)
2007
Canadian centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada
(solo show with
Gilles Clément, landscape designer)
Kunsthaus Graz,
Austria (group show)
2005
Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris (collection show)
2005
Mori art museum, Tokyo (group show)
2005
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (solo show)
2005
FRAC CENTRE, Orléans, France (solo show)
2004
CCA, Kitakyushu, Japon (solo show)
2003-2004
Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou,
Paris (collection show)
2002
8e biennale d’architecture de Venise, Italie (solo show)
2001
Traversées, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris,
France (group show)
2001
010101 Art in Technological Times, SF-MOMA, San Francisco, USA (group
show)
2000
Archilab, Orléans, France (group show)
Projects (selection)
2007
Project for 28000m2 Office Building in Venice-Mestre. Italy
Transformation of
a small village in Switzerland into guesthouse accommodations
Restaurant in Lebring,
Austria
2006
Project for a concept pavilion of the new School of Beaux-arts in
Nantes, France
Urban design of a
street in Poland, completed in october 2007
Project
for artists housings in Grizedale, England
2005
Establishment of an architectural charter for the area of Vassivière
in the Limousin
Landscape design
of an island in Austria , completed in 2006
2004
Project for the new cafeteria for the School of Beaux- Arts, Paris
Project for a contemporary
art gallery in Lausanne
2003
Study for a concept pavilion, Renault, France
Project for a park
in San Sebastian, Spain, with Gilles Clément, landscape designers
2000
Project and development of a project for Expo.02 in Neuchâtel.
Urban study for the
commune of Renens, Switzerland.
1998
Project for communal buildings in St-Sulpice, Switzerland
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