MOS
MOS is a New York–based architecture studio founded in 2005 by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample. The studio was elected to the National Academy of Design in 2025 and has received the 2022–23 American Academy Rome Prize, the 2020 United States Artist Award, and the 2015 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum National Design Award in Architecture. Its work is held in the collections of The MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museum of Art, Columbia University’s Avery Library, Harvard’s Loeb Library Special Collections, the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Library, and The AAR’s Chiaraviglio Library Special Collections.
Recent projects include House No. 10 in New York; School No. 3, a design school in Versailles, France; Studio No. 3 for artist James Casebere in New York; Art Space No. 5, Ruth Arts in Milwaukee; Greenhouse No. 1–4, Marta Gallery in Los Angeles; and Night Club No. 1 with artist Tony Cokes.
Recent publications, both by and about the studio, include MOS: Selected Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016); El Croquis No. 184 (2016); Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press, 2016); A Situation Constructed from Loose and Overlapping Social and Architectural Aggregates (AADR, 2016); An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures Without Architecture (MIT Press, 2019); Houses for Sale (CCA/Corraini, 2019); Casa No. 1–17 (Libra, 2021); Vacant Spaces N.Y. (Actar, 2021); A Book on Making a Petite École (Actar, 2022); Laboratorio de Vivienda (Actar, 2023); Public Spaces N.Y. (Park Books, 2025); and Smaller Architecture (Architecture Exchange, 2025).
