Hilary Sample

Hilary Sample is an architect based in New York City. With Michael Meredith, she co-founded the internationally acclaimed architecture and design studio MOS.
Her work focuses on the creation of cultural and educational spaces within vacant spaces, through collective housing, schools, community centers, galleries, and public art installations.
She is the recipient of the 2010 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2015, The Architectural League of New York Emerging Voices in 2008, 2020 United States Artists Award, and the 2023 American Academy in Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture. Recent work includes masterplan design, design of the educational building, and curation of the Laboratorio di Vivenda in Mexico, the Krabbesholm Four Studios in Denmark, Petit École in Versailles, and a series of collective housing residential buildings in Washington D.C., and in Asunción, Paraguay; a greenhouse / clinic for the Guangzhou Triennial, and a community incubator in upstate New York.
Hilary is a Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and holds the inaugural IDC Foundation Professorship in housing design and culture.