Philip Enquist plays a key leadership role in SOM's Global City Design Practice, one of the world’s most awarded urban planning groups. Enquist and his studios have improved the quality and efficiency of city living on five continents by creating location-specific strategic designs that integrate nature and urban density within a framework of future-focused public infrastructure.
Enquist’s design perspective encompasses a broad array of innovative, sustainable urban forms that enhance city living with walkable, transit-enabled districts humanized by their natural amenities, and rapidly changing urban clusters within regional ecosystems like North America’s Great Lakes Basin and China’s Bohai Rim.
Enquist is committed to the profession through one-on-one mentorships, and has taught architecture and urban design studios at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and as the Charles Moore Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
He was honored with the 2010 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Architectural Guild of the University of Southern California's School of Architecture for his dedication to strengthening the physical, social, and intellectual infrastructure of cities. The year prior, the Chicago Tribune named him and his studio "Chicagoans of the Year in Architecture," citing “the city-friendly designs of Phil Enquist.”
Enquist believes that the world’s explosive growth in cities and population must be managed by bold and holistically sustainable thinking at the national, regional, and metropolitan scale and that human habitat design will become the alpha design science of the 21st century.
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