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MOS, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, ...
The first thing to know about MOS is that we are a collective of designers, architects, thinkers, and state-of-the-art weirdoes. The two principals, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, teach at Harvard University and Yale University while maintaining the practice. We work all over the world, designing private houses, institutional buildings, urban strategies, research, books, installations, and other projects that are less easily categorized. For better or worse, all of our work isn't shown on this website. (It's nearly impossible to continually document ourselves while producing new work anyway). The website is more of a way to make the design process more intimate and social, allowing others to engage our work and give us feedback, while providing ourselves with another venue just outside of the office to illustrate and reflect upon what we're doing.We really don't know exactly when MOS started, but it was sometime in 2003. At first our name was !@#?, which we quickly found was too difficult to use because 1. you couldn't pronounce it and 2. you couldn't get a web address. So eventually we drifted towards MOS - an acronym of our names and a shared desire to be horizontal and fuzzy, as opposed to tall and shiny. We began our makeshift office around a large table and began working through a range of design experiments - a make-believe of architectural fantasies, problems, and thoughts about what we would be building if we could only get the work. Today, as we've grown, we continue to operate around one large table as a small experimental office that works closely on each project through playful experimentation, serious research, and old-fashioned problem-solving. Through our work we engage architecture as an open system of interrelated issues ranging from architectural typology, digital methodologies, sustainability, structure, fabrication, materiality, tactility, and use, as well as larger networks of the social, cultural, and environmental. This process of participation and inclusion - radical inclusion - allows MOS to operate, producing and inflecting environments at a multiplicity of scales.
Selected Awards and Citations
2009 Young Architects Award PS1/MoMA Summer Pavilion Winners
2009 Progressive Architecture Award, Drive-In and Park, Marfa Texas
2008 Architectural Record: Design Vanguard
2008 Surface Magazine, The Avant-Guard Awards: The Scholars
2008 First Prize “Flip a Strip” Competition, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2008 Emerging Voices Series,The Architectural League of New York, New York
2007 I.D. magazine, Design Distinction, IVY, 53rd Annual Design Review,
2005 First Prize, Architecture/Design, "AICA," Association Internationale des Critiques d'art <
2005 I.D. Award Best in Category, Puppet Theater, 51rd Annual Design Review
Selected Exhibitions
2009 Overhang, Tobias Putrih & MOS, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art , NewCastle, England
2008 Artist Space, Matters of Sensation New York, NY, USA
2008 CStem 2008 – Breeding Objects Torino, Italy
2008 Flexibility-Design in a Fast Changing Society Torino World Design Capital, Torino, Italy
2008 Venice Biennale Experimental Architecture Padiglione Italia Pavilion
2008 ‘Flip-a-Strip’ Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2008 Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA
2007 International Conference Urban Health Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2007 Scripted by Purpose, FUEL Collection 249 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2007 Work by MOS , Cite de l’architecture et du partimoine, Paris, France
2007 Design Triennale - iVY, Design Life Now, ICA, Boston, MA, USA
2007 Young Architects Program, PS1/MoMa, New York, NY, USA
2006 Beyond the Harvard Box, Harvard Graduate School of Design
2007 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennale Design Life Now, New York
2007 Living Spaces, ICFF, New York
2005 SoftCell, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
2004 Young Architects Program PS1/MoMa, New York, NY, USA
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MOS, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample, ...
The first thing to know about MOS is that we are a collective of designers, architects, thinkers, and state-of-the-art weirdoes. The two principals, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, teach at Harvard University and Yale University while maintaining the practice. We work all over the world, designing private houses, institutional buildings, urban strategies, research, books, installations, and other projects that are less easily categorized. For better or worse, all of our work isn't shown on this website. (It's nearly impossible to continually document ourselves while producing new work anyway). The website is more of a way to make the design process more intimate and social, allowing others to engage our work and give us feedback, while providing ourselves with another venue just outside of the office to illustrate and reflect upon what we're doing.We really don't know exactly when MOS started, but it was sometime in 2003. At first our name was !@#?, which we quickly found was too difficult to use because 1. you couldn't pronounce it and 2. you couldn't get a web address. So eventually we drifted towards MOS - an acronym of our names and a shared desire to be horizontal and fuzzy, as opposed to tall and shiny. We began our makeshift office around a large table and began working through a range of design experiments - a make-believe of architectural fantasies, problems, and thoughts about what we would be building if we could only get the work. Today, as we've grown, we continue to operate around one large table as a small experimental office that works closely on each project through playful experimentation, serious research, and old-fashioned problem-solving. Through our work we engage architecture as an open system of interrelated issues ranging from architectural typology, digital methodologies, sustainability, structure, fabrication, materiality, tactility, and use, as well as larger networks of the social, cultural, and environmental. This process of participation and inclusion - radical inclusion - allows MOS to operate, producing and inflecting environments at a multiplicity of scales.
Selected Awards and Citations
2009 Young Architects Award PS1/MoMA Summer Pavilion Winners
2009 Progressive Architecture Award, Drive-In and Park, Marfa Texas
2008 Architectural Record: Design Vanguard
2008 Surface Magazine, The Avant-Guard Awards: The Scholars
2008 First Prize “Flip a Strip” Competition, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2008 Emerging Voices Series,The Architectural League of New York, New York
2007 I.D. magazine, Design Distinction, IVY, 53rd Annual Design Review,
2005 First Prize, Architecture/Design, "AICA," Association Internationale des Critiques d'art <
2005 I.D. Award Best in Category, Puppet Theater, 51rd Annual Design Review
Selected Exhibitions
2009 Overhang, Tobias Putrih & MOS, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art , NewCastle, England
2008 Artist Space, Matters of Sensation New York, NY, USA
2008 CStem 2008 – Breeding Objects Torino, Italy
2008 Flexibility-Design in a Fast Changing Society Torino World Design Capital, Torino, Italy
2008 Venice Biennale Experimental Architecture Padiglione Italia Pavilion
2008 ‘Flip-a-Strip’ Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2008 Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY USA
2007 International Conference Urban Health Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2007 Scripted by Purpose, FUEL Collection 249 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2007 Work by MOS , Cite de l’architecture et du partimoine, Paris, France
2007 Design Triennale - iVY, Design Life Now, ICA, Boston, MA, USA
2007 Young Architects Program, PS1/MoMa, New York, NY, USA
2006 Beyond the Harvard Box, Harvard Graduate School of Design
2007 Cooper Hewitt Design Triennale Design Life Now, New York
2007 Living Spaces, ICFF, New York
2005 SoftCell, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
2004 Young Architects Program PS1/MoMa, New York, NY, USA