
Mos
Selected Works
Princeton Architectural Press
Published on 1. March 2016
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-61689-246-3 (ISBN)
Description
Their work has been described as experimental, willfully strange and generally off-kilter, qualities front-and-center in their recent collection Everything All at Once. In just ten years Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample have established MOS as one of the leading young architecture practices in the country. MOS, the first monograph on the built work of the New York-based firm, follows the design studio's evolution from their earliest works to their most celebrated houses and institutional buildings. The thirty projects featured range from the sophisticated to the absurd-from the serene Floating House in Ontario, Canada, and the sustainable Kathmandu Orphanage in Nepal to the playful puppet theater at Harvard's Carpenter Center and the appropriately named Rainbow Vomit installation in New York, a digital, interactive, computational heap of building blocks in a constant state of near collapse. The collection also includes a selection of the couple's unorthodox writings, including their satirical "Office Policy" employee manual.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
300 colour
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-61689-246-3 (9781616892463)
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Persons
Michael Meredith is an assistant professor at Princeton University; Hilary Sample is an associate professor at Columbia University. In 2010, they received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.