Hilary Sample

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Hilary Sample is an American architect, principal, and co-founder of the award-winning architecture firm MOS Architects in New York City. [1]

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Education

Sample received a Master of Architecture with distinction from Princeton University (2003) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University (1994).

Professional life

With partner Michael Meredith, she co-founded MOS Architects in 2003. Sample and Meredith teach at Columbia University and Princeton University, respectively, and their academic research occurs in parallel to the real-world constraints and contingencies of practice, informing both. Recent projects include four studio buildings for the Krabbesholm Højskole campus, the Museum of Outdoor Arts Element House visitor center, the Floating House on Lake Huron, and the Lali Gurans Orphanage and Learning Center in Kathmandu, Nepal.

In 2015, MOS Architects designed the exhibition The Other Architect at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. [2]

Awards

MOS has been honored with numerous awards including: The The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2025 and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award in Architecture in 2015, [3] a 2014 Holcim Award, [4] an Academy Award for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Architectural League’s 2008 Emerging Voices Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town grant and the P/A Award from Architect magazine.

Academic life

Sample is the associate professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. [5] Prior to joining Columbia University, Sample taught at Yale University, University at Buffalo, where she was awarded the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellowship, and the University of Toronto. In 2015, Sample and Meredith served as the Fitzhugh Scott MasterCrit Chairs in Design Excellence at UW Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning [6]

Sample was a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her writings have been published in Harvard Design Magazine, Log, Praxis, and Metropolis. Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture, health, environments, technology, and design.

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References

  1. "MOS Architects". Mos-office.net. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  2. Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). "The Other Architect". www.cca.qc.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  3. "MOS Architects on The National Design Awards Gallery". Ndagallery.cooperhewitt.org. 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  4. "Children's Ziggurat: Locally-adapted orphanage and library, Kath". Holcimfoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  5. "Columbia GSAPP". Arch.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  6. "2015 Fitzhugh Scott Chair in Design Excellence". Uwm.edu. 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2016-01-14.