Filip Tejchman

Education

• B.Arch Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• MS.AAD Columbia University

Biography

Filip’s research, teaching, and creative practice examine architecture as a cultural technology, engaging questions of energy, effect, ecologies, and social infrastructure—understood broadly as ritualized systems of use and meaning. His writing, published in Praxis, Volume, Journal of Architectural Education, MUSEO, and ARPA, explores how these themes shape contemporary architectural practice and research. He was awarded a Graham Foundation Grant for the project Beyond the Invisible Rainbow, which investigates twentieth-century techno-spiritualism through the pedagogy and publications of György Kepes.

Filip received his Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he was awarded the Robert Hifumi Odo Award and the Stephen O. Anderson Award for Design. During this time, he studied at California State University International Program in Florence, Italy, working with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia of Superstudio. He earned his Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University.

His professional experience spans projects of diverse scales and media—including sound, scent, theatrical effects, furniture, buildings, and landscapes—beginning at Diller+Scofidio/DSR and Joel Sanders Architect, with a brief period working in the art studio of Roxy Paine. Filip is the Principal of Untitled Office and a co-founder of ChChCh with Professor Debbie Chen (Rhode Island School of Design).

Filip began his academic career as a full-time faculty member at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, followed by a multi-year appointment at MIT, where he participated in the Media Lab’s How to Make (Almost) Anything course led by Neil Gershenfeld. He joined the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning as the inaugural Fitzhugh Scott Fellow in Architecture.

At UWM, Filip teaches design studio and building systems, with an emphasis on the technical as well as the sensational and theatrical dimensions of lighting, acoustics, sustainability, and HVAC systems. He has also partnered with the American Bird Conservancy to raise awareness of bird-building collisions and to advocate for changes in professional and academic approaches to an issue with significant ecological consequences.

In addition to his teaching and research, Filip serves as a mentor in the I-Corps Innovation Program at the UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.

Curriculum Vitae, CV (PDF)

Recent & Selected Works