Bio
Biography
Jonathan Phillips was born in 1975 in Heidelberg, Germany, and grew up in Munich and Austin, Texas. In 1998 he earned a Bachelor of Plan II Liberal Arts and of Architecture from the University of Texas, where he studied under Professors Gerlinde Leiding, Jun Watanabe, Robert Renfro, and Danilo Udovički-Selb. From 2000 to 2004, he was a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow at Columbia University in New York City, during which time he earned a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy.
In 2003, he was awarded an Annette Kade travel grant to conduct research at the Bauhaus Dessau and the Bauhaus-Archiv.
Jonathan has worked and consulted on behalf of architects and developers in Austin, New York, Linz, and Istanbul, as well as undertaking numerous independent architectural and graphic design projects. In 2010, Jonathan’s article “MacGuffin’ behind the Curtain” was published in the bilingual, peer-reviewed Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge out of RWTH Aachen.
He now lives in Turkey, where he is generally content to regard architecture as a vocation rather than as a field of discourse.