Philippe Block was from 2009 to 2014 Assistant Professor (tenure track) and then until 2017 Associate Professor at the Institute of Technology in Architecture in the Department of Architecture. Since 2017 he is Full Professor of Architecture and Structure.

He completed his BSc and MSc studies in Civil Engineering-Architecture at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) in 2003. In 2005, he earned his SMArchS in Design & Computation from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MA, USA, and obtained a PhD in Building Technology in 2009 at MIT.