Philippe Morel, Architect (summa cum laude) and theorist, is founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research (2000) and XtreeE, a Large-scale 3D printing corporation (2015; www.xtreee.com/ ; where he served as founding CEO after initiating and financing its creation).

He is currently an Associate Professor at the ENSA Paris-Malaquais where he heads the Digital Knowledge department (http://dk-digital-knowledge.com/ ; which he co-founded with Pr. Christian Girard). Prior to this he has been an invited Research Cluster and MArch Diploma Unit Master at UCL Bartlett, an invited Professor at the Berlage Institute (Seminar and Studio) and a Course Master at the AA (History and Theory Seminar, and AADRL Studio).

His long lasting interest in the elaboration of a Theory of Computational Architecture is well expressed by his numerous published essays. Philippe Morel lectured in various places (MIT, Harvard GSD, Pratt Institute, Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, TU Wien, ETH Zurich, EHESS, UCL Bartlett,…). In February 2007, he curated the exhibition “Architecture beyond Forms: The Computational Turn of Architecture” at the Maison de l’architecture et de la ville PACA in Marseille. Explicitly departing from P. Eisenman’s dissertation “The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture” (1963), the exhibition addressed both historically and theoretically the linguistic and computational turns in architectural design. EZCT work, present in the FRAC Centre and Centre Pompidou permanent collections, as well as in private collections, has been presented recently in different exhibitions including recently Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital at the Museum of Arts and Design in NY.