Brian Phillips

Brian is an architect and a leading thinker in the fields of urbanism, housing, and sustainability. He was a Pew Fellow in the Arts and an ALNY Emerging Voice. Brian teaches urban housing at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He directs a non-profit called Meantime which works to activate under-used storefronts with creative and entrepreneurial programs in support of face-to-face urban life.