Michael Meredith (architect)

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Michael Meredith (born 1971) is an American architect, principal and co-founder of award-winning architecture firm MOS Architects in New York City. [1]

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Education

Meredith received a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2000) and a Bachelor in Architecture from Syracuse University (1994).

Professional life

With partner Hilary Sample, they founded MOS Architects in 2003. Meredith and Sample teach at Princeton University School of Architecture and Columbia 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 also designed the exhibition The Other Architect at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. [2]

Awards

MOS has been honored with numerous awards, including: The 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

Meredith is a professor at Princeton University. [5] In 2015, Meredith and Sample served as the Fitzhugh Scott MasterCrit Chairs in Design Excellence at UW Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning. [6] He has previously taught architecture at several schools, including the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Muschenheim Fellowship, and the University of Toronto.

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References

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  2. Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). "The Other Architect". www.cca.qc.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  3. "MOS Architects on The National Design Awards Gallery". cooperhewitt.org. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
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  5. "Michael Meredith - Princeton University School of Architecture". princeton.edu. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  6. "News - School of Architecture & Urban Planning". uwm.edu. Retrieved 14 January 2017.