Michael Meredith (born 1971) is an American architect, principal and co-founder of award-winning architecture firm MOS Architects in New York City. [1]
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).
With partner Hilary Sample, Meredith founded MOS Architects in 2003. [2] The New York-based firm is a small architectural practice that works on a range of projects that interconnect architectural practice, academia, and the arts through playful experimentation and inventive material usage. MOS’s work spans buildings, exhibitions, installations, furniture, objects, software, video and publications, and is characterized by a critical reflection on architecture itself, often addressing questions of architectural representation, scale, domesticity, and use.
MOS has designed and curated exhibitions for a variety of art- and architecture-based work, such as The Other Architect at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2015) [3] , 44 Low-resolution Houses (2018) [4] and Building with Writing (2025) [5] at Princeton University, and A Garden of… at Marta Gallery (2025) [6] . The practice has also collaborated with artists such as Tony Cokes, Pierre Huyghe, Rachel Rose (artist), and Tobias Putrih. Meredith and Sample have been invited to display their work in galleries and institutions across the United States, Europe, and Asia, including for Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream at the Museum of Modern Art (2012) [7] , the Chicago Architecture Biennial [8] , and the Venice Architecture Biennale on multiple occasions. Their works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
The firm’s built works primarily includes single-family housing, collective housing, artist studios, and cultural and educational projects. Notable projects include four studio buildings for the Krabbesholm Højskole campus in Denmark, the Museum of Outdoor Arts Element House visitor center in Colorado, Studio No. 3 and House No. 10 in New York, the Floating House on Lake Huron, and the Lali Gurans Orphanage and Learning Center in Kathmandu, Nepal. Their work has also engaged social housing, beginning with their Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream exhibition at the MoMA and continuing through projects such as Laboratorio de Vivienda and Barrio Chacarita Alta Housing.
Meredith is a professor at Princeton University School of Architecture. [9] His academic research occurs in parallel to the real-world constraints and contingencies of practice, informing both. In 2015, Meredith and Sample served as the Fitzhugh Scott MasterCrit Chairs in Design Excellence at UW Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning. [10] 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.
In addition to teaching and practicing architecture, Meredith is active as an architectural critic and theorist, and has authored essays and books reflecting on the discipline of architecture and contemporary architectural practice. [11] Many of his works are written in a fragmentary style with a unique use of explanatory footnotes. Notable texts include: “Vanishing Point, Notes for Those Beginning the Discipline of Architecture” (2007), “Radical Inclusion! A Survival Guide to Post-Architecture” (2008), “13 Obituaries/Weather” (2010), “Office Policy” (2015), “Indifference again” (2017), and Smaller Architecture (2025). His collaboration with Stan Allen, which includes an exhibition and a podcast, both titled Building with Writing, examines Allen’s work and the greater evolving relationship between architectural production and writing.
Publishing forms a significant component of MOS’s work. The firm produces books that document projects and exhibitions and present research-based and speculative work related to architecture, housing, public space, and pedagogy. Selected publications include:
MOS Architects has received numerous awards and recognitions, including:
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