{{short description|American architect}} thumb|Image of Hilary Sample '''Hilary Sample''' is an American architect, principal, and co-founder of the award-winning architecture firm MOS Architects in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mos-office.net/ |title=MOS Architects |website=Mos-office.net |date= |access-date=2016-01-14}}</ref>
==Education== Sample received a Master of Architecture with distinction from Princeton University (2003) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University (1994).
==Professional life== With partner Michael Meredith (architect), Sample founded MOS Architects in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About – MOS |url=https://mos.nyc/about/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |language=en-US}}</ref> 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)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Architecture (CCA) |first=Canadian Centre for |title=The Other Architect |url=https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/3538/the-other-architect |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=www.cca.qc.ca |language=en}}</ref>, ''44 Low-resolution Houses'' (2018)<ref>{{Cite web |title=EXHIBITION REVIEW: 44 Low Resolution Houses |url=https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/low-resolution-houses-princeton |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=archive.pinupmagazine.org |language=en}}</ref> and ''Building with Writing'' (2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Building with Writing |url=https://drawingmatter.org/building-with-writing?page&name=building-with-writing |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=drawingmatter.org |language=en-GB}}</ref> at Princeton University, and ''A Garden of…'' at Marta Gallery (2025)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plans |first=No |title=Marta |url=https://marta.la/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=marta.la |language=en-US}}</ref>. 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)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1213 |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref>, the Chicago Architecture Biennial<ref>{{Cite web |last=Biennial |first=Chicago Architecture |title=MOS and Tony Cokes |url=https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/people/mos-and-tony-cokes/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=Chicago Architecture Biennial |language=en-US}}</ref>, 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.
== Academic life == Sample is the associate professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Columbia GSAPP |url=http://www.arch.columbia.edu/about/people/hms2155columbiaedu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107011225/http://www.arch.columbia.edu/about/people/hms2155columbiaedu |archive-date=2016-01-07 |access-date=2016-01-14 |website=Arch.columbia.edu}}</ref> Prior to joining Columbia University, Sample taught at Yale University, University at Buffalo, where she was awarded the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellowship, and the University of Toronto. In 2015, Sample and Meredith served as the Fitzhugh Scott MasterCrit Chairs in Design Excellence at UW Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning <ref>{{cite web |date=2015-02-22 |title=2015 Fitzhugh Scott Chair in Design Excellence |url=https://www4.uwm.edu/sarup/news/fitzhughscottchair-2015.cfm |access-date=2016-01-14 |website=Uwm.edu |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103920/https://www4.uwm.edu/sarup/news/fitzhughscottchair-2015.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Sample was a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her writings have been published in Harvard Design Magazine, Log, Praxis, and Metropolis. Her research focuses on the intersection of architecture, health, environments, technology, and design.
== Publications == 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:
* 2012 ''Everything All at Once: The Software, Architecture, and Videos of MOS'', Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, Princeton Architectural Press * 2012 Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production, edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith, Routledge * 2015 ''MOS: Selected Works'', Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, Princeton Architectural Press * 2015 ''Questions Concerning Health: Stress and Wellness in Johannesburg'', edited by Hilary Sample, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation * 2016 ''A Situation Constructed from Loose and Overlapping Social and Architectural Aggregates'', Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample & MOS, AADR * 2016 ''Maintenance Architecture'', Hilary Sample, The MIT Press * 2018 ''44 Low-resolution Houses'', Michael Meredith, Princeton Architectural Press * 2018 ''An Unfinished ... Encyclopedia of ... Scale Figures Without ... Architecture'', edited by Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample & MOS, The MIT Press * 2019 ''A Constant Search for Architecture: Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample on a Curious Journey'', essay by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, Canadian Centre for Architecture * 2019 ''Houses for Sale'', Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, Canadian Centre for Architecture and Corraini Edizioni * 2021 ''Vacant Spaces, NY'', Michael Meredith Hilary Sample & MOS, Actar * 2023 ''A Book on Making a Petite Ecole'', Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, Actar * 2025 ''Public Spaces, NY'', Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample & MOS, University of Chicago Press * 2025 ''Smaller Architecture'', Michael Meredith, Architectural Exchange
== Awards == MOS Architects has received numerous awards and recognitions, including:
* Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices Award (2008)<ref>{{Cite web |title=About – MOS |url=https://mos.nyc/about/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |language=en-US}}</ref> * MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (2009)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Young Architects Program 2009: afterparty by MOS {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/944 |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> * American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Architecture (2010)<ref>{{Cite web |title=EXHIBITION REVIEW: 44 Low Resolution Houses |url=https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/low-resolution-houses-princeton |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=archive.pinupmagazine.org |language=en}}</ref> * National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant (2011) * Holcim Foundation Awards for Sustainable Construction (2014, 2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Building with Writing |url=https://drawingmatter.org/building-with-writing?page&name=building-with-writing |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=drawingmatter.org |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Plans |first=No |title=Marta |url=https://marta.la/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=marta.la |language=en-US}}</ref> * Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture (2015)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1213 |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}</ref> * United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=MOS |url=https://www.unitedstatesartists.org/artists/mos |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=United States Artists |language=en}}</ref> * A+D Museum Design Award for ''Housing No. 8'' (2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bigger than a Street, Smaller than a City - Housing No.8 |url=https://aplusd.org/bigger-than-a-street-smaller-than-a-city-2021/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=A+D Museum |language=en-US}}</ref> * Arnold W. Brunner / Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (2022–2023)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dream the Combine, MOS Architects, Present Practice, and Alexa Vaughn among winners of the American Academy's 2022–23 Rome Prize |url=https://archinect.com/news/article/150308031/dream-the-combine-mos-architects-present-practice-and-alexa-vaughn-among-winners-of-the-american-academy-s-2022-23-rome-prize |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=Archinect |language=en}}</ref>
* Election to the National Academy of Design (2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Academy of Design |url=https://rebeccacamacho.com/news/92-national-academy-of-design-2025-national-academicians-elected/ |access-date=2026-01-16 |website=Rebecca Camacho Presents |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.mos-office.net/ MOS Architects website]
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