Philippe Rahm

Philippe Rahm is a Swiss architect with a degree from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a doctorate from the Université de Paris-Saclay, whose practice of PHILIPPE RAHM ARCHITECTES is based in Paris. His work, from the physiological to the meteorological, has received an international audience in the context of sustainability.

His projects include the Taichung Central Park in Taiwan, inaugurated in 2020 (with Mosbach paysagistes), a climatic urban studies for a new district of Aix-en-Provence in France in 2024 and a study for the implementation of 20 000 heat pumps on the roofs of the City of Geneva (2025). He authored the books Natural History of Architecture (2026), Climatic architecture and The Anthropocene Style (2023). He has taught at Harvard, Princeton and Columbia universities, HEAD – Geneva and ENSA Versailles.

He has taken part in numerous biennials, including those in Venice (2025), Tbilisi (2024), Madrid (2024), Chicago (2023) or Tallinn (2022). In 2025, he is co-curator of the Île-de-France and Saint-Etienne biennales. He is a knight of the Monaco Order of Cultural Merit and has been awarded the Silver Medal of the French Academy of Architecture. In 2025, he is co-curator of the Biennale of architecture in Versailles and the biennale of Design in Saint-Etienne.