Adaptation Lab: Adaptation Talks: Philippe Rahm

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Join the Adaptation Lab for a relaxed lunchtime gathering in which Benedict Clouette, Research Coordinator of C-Lab, will lead a live online conversation with internationally acclaimed architect Philippe Rahm. The audience will be encouraged to share their own questions about the future of architecture in relation to technology and how it is changing our cities. The scheduled event programme will start with the online conversation with Philippe Rahm from 12–1pm, and will then continue until 3pm with an open discussion with Benedict Clouette in the Adaptation Lab space.

Philippe Rahm, born in 1967 studied at the Federal Polytechnic Schools of Lausanne and Zurich. He obtained his architectural degree in 1993. He currently runs his own practice 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 the Aaron Betsky’s 2008 Architectural Venice Biennale. He is nominee in 2009 for the Ordos Prize in China and was in 2008 in the top ten ranking of the International Chernikov prize in Moscow. 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, CCA Kitakyushu 2004, Frac Centre, Orléans, Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg 2003-2006 and 2007, Manifesta 7, 2008, Louisiana museum, Denmark, 2009). 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 in Mendrisio Academy of Architecture in Switzerland in 2004 and 2005, at the ETH Lausanne in 2006 and 2007, guest professor at the Royal School of Architecture of Copenhaguen in 2009-2010. He is currently visiting lecturer in Princeton, USA. He is working on several private and public projects in France, Poland, England, Italy and Germany. He has lectured widely, including at Cooper Union NY, Harvard School of Design, UCLA and ETH Zurich.