Philip G. Freelon | FAIA, LEED AP

President

Phil Freelon is a native of Philadelphia, PA. Following graduation from North Carolina State University's College of Design with a Bachelor of Environmental Design (Architecture) and top design honors, he went on to earn his Master of Architecture degree from MIT. 

Freelon's work has been published in national professional journals including Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, and most recently in Contract magazine where he was named Designer of the Year for 2008.   Metropolis and Metropolitan Home magazines and the New York Times have also featured Freelon and his firm.  His furniture design has been recognized nationally including first prize in the PPG Furniture Design Competition and design contract work with Herman Miller. The Freelon Group has received twenty-six AIA design awards (regional, state and local) and has also received AIA North Carolina’s Outstanding Firm Award in 2001.  

Freelon has served as an adjunct professor at the College of Design, North Carolina State University and has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard, MIT, the University of Maryland, Syracuse University, the University of Utah, the California College of the Arts, Kent State University (Florence Italy, program), and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, among others.  In 1989, Freelon was awarded the Loeb Fellowship and spent a year of independent study at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.  Phil is currently on the faculty at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. 

Freelon is one of 19 LEED® Accredited Professionals in his firm.  He is currently serving as a Peer Professional in the GSA’s Design Excellence Program and has served on the National Endowment for the Arts Design Stewardship Panel.  Freelon is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and has served on numerous design award juries including the National AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture.  Freelon is the 2009 recipient of the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for Public architecture.