Background.

Phillip’s research interests revolve around the intersection of interactive architectural environments, the internet of things, and medical technology innovation.

Phillip graduated with a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS), with a focus in Design and Computation, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in June 2015. As a graduate student at mit, he was also the first recipient of the Robert R. Taylor Fellowship from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P). His thesis project, Interactive Phototherapy: Integrating Photomedicine into Interactive Architecture, proposed ideas for leveraging interior architectural lighting and embedded computing technologies to address problems associated with conventional phototherapy techniques.

As a parallel initiative to his MIT thesis research, Phillip also had the opportunity to work alongside researchers in the Changing Places Group (principal investigator: Kent Larson) in the MIT Media Laboratory on two iterations of CityHome: a modular, intelligent robotics platform for transformable smart environments.

Throughout his time as an architecture student, Philip has also organized and taught multiple workshops on computer-aided architectural design. At MIT, he organized and wrote a significant portion of the curriculum for a course on building information modeling (BIM) developed for the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) program. CAD (Rhino), parametric/generative modelling (Grasshopper + VB-Rhinoscript), BIM (Revit), and design application interoperability/workflows to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Prior to his studies at MIT, Phillip graduated magna cum laude with professional degrees in both architecture (BArch) and interior architecture (BIArch) from Auburn University in May 2012. He is originally from Madison, AL.