Phil Cox

I am a writer, researcher and strategist interested in how ideas become form, and form becomes meaning. 
I work with individuals and groups in search of better ways to tell their stories; together we craft narratives, build plans, convey truths. Over the past decade my clients have ranged from paleontologists and art curators to coders and CEOs. 
But my favorite project is the next one. Get in touch if you’d like to work together.



Clients:

Dataland
Doris Duke Foundation
Meta
Gates Foundation
MoMA
University of Chicago Center for Decision Research
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
TIGER21
Advocates for Trans Equality
MCA Chicago
Google
University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning



Writing:

“Speak Data: Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers“ (Chronicle, 2025)
“What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen” (IU Press, 2025)
“In Praise of the Pedestrian“ (Untapped Journal, 2025)
”Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the ‘Dean of Indiana Architects’” (MAS Context, 2025) 
“Fake Lloyd Wright” (Los Angeles Review of Architecture, 2025)



Contact: 

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