Philippe Barriere
Philippe Barriere has engaged in a wide range of activities in the professional, non-profit and academic realms on a national and international level and as an architect, architecture critic, urban planner, associate professor and architecture historian.

Philippe received his degree in architecture from the L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was granted a scholarship to study at two American graduate programs—Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cornell University. He received a Master of Science in Urban Planning from the Institut d'Urbanisme de Paris, followed by a Doctorate in Art History at the University Pantheon Sorbonne (Paris). He worked as an architect in the USA as well as France, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and the French West Indies. He completed his Master’s Degree at Pratt Institute in New York, where he subsequently settled and established a practice. His writings have been widely published in l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Archi-Cree and other publications.

His work and the work of his students has been widely exhibited. He has taught at the New York Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Montreal, Drury University, the University of Kansas, and more recently at l’Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris and l’Ecole d’Architecture de Université Laval de Québec. He is the principal of Philippe Barrière Collective (pb+co).

In 2006, Philippe was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres), an honor bestowed on him by the French Ministry of Culture for his contribution and achievements in the field of architecture.