Stephen J. Phillips

Stephen J. Phillips, AIA, Ph.D. was born in Oxford, England and immigrated to the New York metropolitan area as a young child. Phillips received his B.A. with Distinction in Architecture from Yale University, his M.Arch. with the award for best studio thesis from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in Architecture History/Theory from Princeton University. He is principal architect in the California based firm Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and a Professor of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is Founding Director of the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design and has taught as Visiting faculty at University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and Los Angeles (UCLA), Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and California College of the Arts (CCA). Phillips publishes and lectures widely on modern design, technology, media, and contemporary urban culture. He is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships for his projects, teaching, and writing including those from the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Graham Foundation, the Bruno Zevi Foundation, the Barr Ferree Foundation, the AIA, and the ACSA. He is the author of 'L.A. [Ten]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture 1970s-1990s' by Lars Müller Publishers (2014), and 'Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture' by MIT Press (2017). He has written essays and chapters in 'The Building' (2017); 'Patrick Tighe Architecture: Building Dichotomy'(2016); 'The Culture Now Project (Part) 1 – Midsize America' (2012); 'B+U Herwig Baumgartner & Scott Uriu (design peak 12)' (2012); 'Vectorfields' (2010); 'Surrealism and Architecture'(2004); and 'Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy' (2004), among many others.