MOS ARCHITECTS / MICHAEL MEREDITH & HILARY SAMPLE (USA)

Amongst the recent projects of MOS Architects are The New Foundation in Seattle, the Souvenir Pile, Legible Pompeii, for the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, Artist Studio and Residence in Brooklyn, New York, the Luoyang Science and Technology Museum in China, the Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, PS1, Museum of Modern Art, the SOLO House in Barcelona, Spain, the Lali Gurans Orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal, the Element House in Las Vegas, the Sterling Opera House in Derby, Connecticut and the Ballroom Marfa, Drive-In Theater, Marfa in Texas.

MOS are recipient of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, National Design Awards, Finalist, 2014, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Architecture, New York, NY, 2010 Progressive Architecture Award, Drive-In and Park, Marfa, Texas, 2009.

Michael Meredith is a principal and co-founder of MOS Architects and Director of Graduate Studies at Princeton University School of Architecture. He has previously taught architecture at several schools, including at the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship, the University of Toronto, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Hilary Sample is a principal and co-founder of MOS Architects. She is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Housing, at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation where she engages students in issues focused on affordable housing in Harlem and the Bronx. She has also taught design studios at Yale University, University of Toronto, and held the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellowship at SUNY Buffalo. Hilary has previously been a member of the board of directors of the MacDowell Colony and is currently a member of the Architecture Advisory Board at Syracuse University. In addition, her design research into architecture, cities and urban public health includes essays in Imperfect Health and Verb Crisis and a forthcoming report Questions Concerning Health reports on this critical terrain, focusing particularly on Johannesburg, Soweto, and Alexandra, South Africa. In April 2014, she co-chaired the symposium, Conversations About Architecture, Cities, and Public Health with keynote speaker Carlos Dora from the W.H.O, a groundbreaking collaboration at Columbia University.