How To Build A Human Being

Stephen Phillips, FAIA is an architect, scholar, historian, curator, and educator. He is principal architect at Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and Professor of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is the Founding Director of the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design. Phillips received his B.A. from Yale University, M.Arch. from University of Pennsylvania, and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has previously taught at U.C. Berkeley, UCLA, SCIArc, CCA, and Art Center College of Design. Phillips is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including those from the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Graham Foundation, the Bruno Zevi Foundation, the AIA, and the ACSA. Building designs by Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) have been published internationally in DOMUS, Der Spiegel, The Architect’s Newspaper, Dezeen, 7x7, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Sunset Magazine, among other notable newspapers, magazines, and journals. Phillips is the author of L.A. [Ten]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture 1970s-1990s (Lars Müller Publishers, 2014), and Elastic Architecture: Frederick Kiesler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture (MIT Press, 2017).