Philip G. Freelon, FAIA, LEED® AP

Phil Freelon founded The Freelon Group in 1990, Over the past 21 years, the firm has grown to 51 total staff including 21 licensed architects. Focusing on higher education, science & technology and museum/cultural center projects, Freelon’s firm has successfully delivered award winning building design within a collaborative and innovative studio environment. The firm has completed major museum projects in Baltimore, MD, San Francisco, CA, Greensboro and Charlotte, NC. The team of Freelon Adjaye Bond has recently been selected by the Smithsonian Institution to design the new National Museum of African American History and Culture to be located on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

Freelon's work has been published in national professional journals including Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, and 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. The Freelon Group has received thirty-seven AIA design awards at the national, regional and state levels 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 and lecturer at Harvard, MIT, the University of Maryland, Syracuse University, Kent State University, the University of Cincinnati, Catholic University 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 29 LEED® Accredited Professionals in his firm and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Freelon has served on numerous design award juries including the National AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture. He is also the 2009 recipient of the AIA Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture and the 2010 recipient of AIA North Carolina’s Gold Medal.

A native of Philadelphia, PA., Freelon holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design (Architecture) from North Carolina State University's College of Design and a Master of Architecture from MIT.