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Hilary Sample

Hilary Sample is the IDC Foundation Professor of Housing Design and coordinator of the Core III Studio at GSAPP, and Co-Founder of the New York-based architecture and design studio MOS. Since its establishment in 2003, MOS has won major national and international awards and been recognized in significant publications. Monographs about the studio include an issue of El Croquis and Selected Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016).

Sample recently published Maintenance Architecture (MIT Press, 2016) and has taught at Columbia GSAPP, Harvard GSD, Yale SoA, 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.

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

The work of MOS 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.

Sample, along with Michael Meredith, is a recipient of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Museum’s National Design Award in Architecture (2015), the United States Artists Award (2020), and the Rome Prize (2022–23).

Recent Work

Krabbesholm School for Art, Architecture, Photography and Design, Denmark

Chamber design gallery, New York

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Competition Entry)

Element House, New Mexico

Courses

Course	Semester	Title	Instructor	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
A4003‑1	Fall 2025	Core Architecture Studio III	Hilary Sample	Architecture Studio Architecture Required	114 AVERY (W only) M + TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM	FULL SEMESTER 9 Points	13269
A4103‑1	Fall 2025	Architecture Studio III	Hilary Sample	Architecture Studio Architecture Required	500 SOUTH AVERY M + TH 1:30 - 6:30, W 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM	FULL SEMESTER	10622
A4106‑16	Spring 2025	Architecture Studio VI	Hilary Sample	Architecture Studio AAD Studio	600/700 AVERY M+TH(1:30 PM- 6:30 PM), W (1:30 PM - 3:30 PM)	FULL SEMESTER 0 Points	11011