Philippe Rahm (born 1967) is a Swiss architect (M.Arch., EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, 1993; PhD, University of Paris-Saclay, France, 2019). He is the principal of the office Philippe Rahm architectes, based in Paris, France. His work, which extends the field of architecture from the physiological to the meteorological, has gained international recognition, particularly in the context of sustainability.
In 2002, Philippe Rahm was selected to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice. In 2025, he was co-curator of the Architecture Biennale in Versailles and the Design Biennale in Saint-Étienne. He has participated in numerous architecture biennales, including Venice (2002, 2008, 2025), Madrid and Tbilisi (2024), Chicago (2017, 2023), Tallinn (2022), Sharjah (2018), and Seoul (2017), among others. In 2007, he held a solo exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
His work includes the first prize for the Farini competition in Milan (2019, with OMA), a master plan for a new 62-hectare district and a 15-hectare park, as well as first prize in 2011 for the 70-hectare Taichung Gateway Park (Jade Eco Park / Central Park) in Taiwan, completed in 2020 (with Mosbach Paysagistes).
His monographic publications include Environ(ne)ment: Approaches for Tomorrow (Skira, 2006), Constructed Atmospheres (Postmedia, Milan, 2014), and Climatic Architecture (2023).
In 2023, he authored The Anthropocene Style and Natural History of Architecture, the latter published by Actar in 2026. Philippe Rahm received the Silver Medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 2019 and was made a Knight of the Order of Cultural Merit of Monaco in 2017. He was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2000.
He has held professorships at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (2005–2006), the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland (2004–2005), EPFL (2006–2007), the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2009–2010), the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) (2010–2011), Harvard Graduate School of Design (2014–2016), Cornell University (2019–2021), and Columbia University (2016, 2023, and 2024) as Dean’s Visiting Associate Professor. From 2010 to 2012, he held the Jean Labatut Professorship at Princeton University.
He is currently a tenured associate professor at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles (ENSA-V), France, and a studio critic at HEAD–Genève. He has lectured widely, including at Yale University, the Beijing Forum, UCLA, and ETH Zürich.
