1 EBiography
Philippe Rahm, born in 1967 studied at the Federal Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich. He obtained his architectural degree in 1993. 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 20 manifesto’s architects 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, Valencia Biennial 2003, CCA Kitakyushu 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2005, Frac Centre, Orléans, Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg 2003-2006 and 2007, Manifesta 7, 2008). 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, at the ETH Lausanne in 2006 and 2007 and at the School of Architecture of Paris-Malaquais in Paris in 2008. He is Professor at the ECAL Lausanne. He is currently working on several private and public projects in France, Poland, England, Italy and Austria. He has lectured widely, including at Cooper Union NY, Harvard School of Design, UCLA and Princeton.
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)
2009 Project for a house for Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Project for 28000m2 Office Building in Venice-Mestre. Italy
Transformation of a small village in Switzerland into guesthouse accommodations
2007 Restaurant in Lebring, Austria
2006 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 with 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
Publications (selection)
Monographies2009 apr. Philippe Rahm, “Architecture météorologique”, Archibooks, Paris, France
2009 May “Architecture now ! Green”, by Philip Jodidio, Taschen, Germany
2006 oct. « Gilles Clément, Philippe Rahm, Environment : approaches for tomorrow», Skira, Milan, Italy
2005 jan. « Ghost flat », Philippe Rahm, Marie Darrieussecq, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
jan. « Philippe Rahm/Décosterd & Rahm, distorsions », HYX éditeurs, Orléans, France
2004 dec “ Ghostscape” Monum, ENSBA, Paris
2002 august « Décosterd & Rahm, physiological architecture » Birkhäuser, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Recent portions of Books and catalogues (selection)
May 10x10_3, Phaidon, London, UK
Jan. 2009 Creation Assistance Grants VIA, Paris, France
Jan. “The new architectural generation” by Kieran Long, Laurence King Editors, London, England
2008 Nov. “Con-textos 2008”, Escuela Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Camilo Jose Cela, Madrid, Spain
Nov. “Deux mille trente et un”, Haute école d’art et de design – genève, Switzerland
Nov. “La Casa Encedida”, coordinated by Juan Herreros, Caja Madrid, Spain
Sept. “Out There”, 11 Mostra Internationale di Architettura, Marsilio Editore
summer “Manifesta 7”, Scenarios, Principle Hope, catalogue, Italy
summer “Art and climate, Moral imagination” Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, Germany
summer 100 x 400 (105 famous international architects”, Rihan, Hong Kong, China
Feb A. Moravansky / O. W. Fischer, “Precisions” ETH Zurich / Jovis Verlag, Berlin
1.1 Philippe Rahm / complete biography