Philippe Rahm (born April 28, 1967, in Pully, Switzerland) is a Swiss architect who studied at the Federal Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich obtaining his architectural degree in 1993. He is the principal at Philippe Rahm Architectes in Paris, France.
In 2002 he was chosen to represent Switzerland at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice and was one of the 25 manifesto’s architects of Aaron Betsky’s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. He was a nominee in 2009 for the Ordos Prize in China and in 2008 was in the top ten of the International Chernikov Prize in Moscow. He has participated in many exhibitions worldwide (Archilab 2000, SF-MoMA 2001, CCA Kitakyushu 2004, Frac Centre, Orléans, Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg 2003-2006 and 2007, Manifesta 7, 2008, Louisiana museum, Denmark, 2009) and in 2007 he had a personal exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.
He was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2000. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London (2005-2006), the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland (2004, 2005), the ETH Lausanne (2006, 2007) and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (2009-2010). Currently a visiting lecturer of Architectural Design at Princeton, Rahm has lectured widely including at Cooper Union NY, Harvard School of Design, UCLA and ETH Zurich.
