Hilary Sample

Hilary Sample is the IDC Professor of Housing Design at Columbia GSAPP, where she coordinates the Core Architecture Studios and Core III Housing Studios. She is an architect and principal of MOS Architects, which she co-founded with Michael Meredith in 2003. An internationally recognized architectural practice, MOS was the recipient of the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture, the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, and the 2008 Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award. Recent awards include: the 2015 Global Holcim Award for sustainable construction (Asia-Pacific Region), for Community Center No. 3 (Lali Gurans Orphanage); the cover of Abitare and an AIA NY State Award of Excellence, for School No. 1 (Krabbesholm Højskole); the 2014 accession of the firm’s modular, off-grid House No. 5 (Museum of Outdoor Arts Element House) into the Museum of Modern Art, Architecture and Design Collection; the acquisition of House No. 3 (Lot No. 6/Ordos) into the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago; and selection of Pavilion No. 4 (Afterparty) for the 2009 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. Recent work includes: Store No. 2 (Chamber) in Chelsea; House No. 10, currently under-construction; the competition proposal School No. 2 (Institute for Advanced Study Commons Building); and Housing No. 4 (Dequindre Cut, Detroit).

Recent and forthcoming publications, both products of and surveys on MOS’s work, include Everything All at Once: The Software, Film, and Architecture of MOS (Princeton Architectural Press, 2013); MOS: Selected Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016); El Croquis No. 184 (El Croquis, 2016); A Situation Constructed From Loose and Overlapping Social and Architectural Aggregates (AADR, 2016); An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture (GSAPP Books, 2016); and an A+U monograph (forthcoming, 2017). Sample’s design research has been published in Imperfect Health (Canadian Centre for Architecture/Lars Müller, 2012) and in a forthcoming book, titled Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press, 2016). Her other writings on architecture, design, and health have been published in Praxis, Log, and Harvard Design Magazine.