Philippe Morel

Background

About Philippe Morel

Dr Philippe Morel is an architect, theorist and entrepreneur, co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research and initiator and founding CEO of the large-scale 3D-printing corporation XtreeE (2015). He teaches as an Associate Professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture – University College London, where he is the director of the Master of Science in Architectural Computation programme (MSc AC), and at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais (ENSAPM, currently on leave), where he headed the Digital Knowledge department (co-founded with Pr. Ch. Girard). Before teaching at the Bartlett and ENSA Paris-Malaquais, he was a Seminar and Studio Professor at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, a History and Theory Diploma School seminar tutor and AADRL studio leader at the Architectural Association in London. In 2017, with Pr Ch. Girard and Pr L. Dimitriadi, he co-edited the book Computational Politics and Architecture: From Digital Philosophy to the End of Work (Editions ENSA Paris-Malaquais), and in 2023, with Pr Henriette Bier, he co-edited the book Disruptive Technologies: The Convergence of New Paradigms in Architecture (Springer Series in Adaptive Environments). In February 2007, he curated the exhibition Architecture Beyond Forms: The Computational Turn at the Maison de l’architecture et de la ville PACA in Marseille. Explicitly departing from Eisenman PhD’s dissertation from 1963 – The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture –, the exhibition addressed both historically and theoretically the (then) linguistic and computational turns in architectural design. Philippe Morel has published more than 30 essays, lectured in many universities around the world (Harvard GSD, ETH Zürich, Columbia GSAPP, Princeton, Pratt Institute, MIT, Yale, TU Delft, EHESS, ENS Lyon, TU Wien, IaaC, Centre Pompidou, etc.) and presented his work in numerous exhibitions (MNAM – Centre Pompidou; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Art & Design, NY). His work and the one of his office are part of private and public collections, including FRAC Centre and Centre Pompidou permanent collections. Philippe Morel was awarded, in 2007, the Prix Pierre Cardin (Pierre Cardin Prize) by the French Académie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts, 23 quai Conti, 75006 Paris) on the proposal of Architect Claude Parent, permanent member of the Academy in the Architecture section (the Pierre Cardin Prize is attributed each year to one painter, one sculptor, one architect, one engraver, and one music composer). Finally, he is a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.