Co-founder of award-winning MOS studio to visit the Stuckeman School

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Hilary Sample, co-founder of the New York-based architecture and design studio MOS and a faculty member in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, will present a Department of Architecture Kossman Lecture at noon on March 30 in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space at Penn State.

Sample’s talk, titled “Houses, Schools, Studios, Housing…,” will also be live-streamed by WPSU as part of the Stuckeman School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series.

Established in 2003 by Sample and Michael Meredith, MOS has been recognized with major national and international awards including The Architectural League of New York’s 2008 Emerging Voices award, a Holcim Award in 2014, the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture and the 2020 United States Artists Fellowship.

MOS undertakes projects diverse in scale and type, spanning throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Some of its most recent projects include a collective affordable housing residence in Washington, D.C. (2022); a photographer’s studio (2020); the Petite École in France, a public pavilion for teaching design to children (2019); a housing-focused education center at Laboratorio de Vivienda in Mexico (2018); and a complex of four art studios at the Krabbesholm School in Denmark (2012).

The practice has designed and developed two publications, “Everything All at Once, The Software, Architecture and Videos of MOS” (2013) and “MOS: Selected Works” (2016), and its work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard University’s Frances Loeb Library and Columbia University’s Butler Library.

At Columbia, Sample is the IDC Professor of Housing Design and sequence director of the core architecture studios. Prior to her appointment, she taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Yale School of Art and the University of Toronto. She has held the John G. Williams Teaching Chair at the University of Arkansas and the Reyner Banham Chair at the State University of Buffalo.

Sample’s 2016 book, titled “Maintenance Architecture,” was published by MIT Press.

She holds a bachelor of architecture from Syracuse University and a master of architecture from Princeton University.