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International Lecture Series: MOS Architects
Photo: Jaime Navarro
Date
27.04.2023
Time
16.00 - 17.30
Price
Free
Open lecture 'Buildings, Books and Other Things' by Hilary Sample and Michael Meredith, founders of MOS Architects in New York.The lecture is part of the ‘International Lecture Series’ at the Royal Danish Academy where prominent international architects are invited to present their views on significant topics in architecture.
The lecture will present and insight to the practice´s approach through a presentation of their multifaceted work - from houses, educational spaces and cultural institutions to exhibitions, installations, furniture, and objects; and also their engagement with making books, speculative software and films.
We suffer and benefit from personal contradictions. Architects who want to be artists, writers who want to be architects, furniture that wants to be buildings, video games that want to be paintings, buildings that want to be movies, earnestly not earnest, deliberately not deliberate, seriously not serious. We make things that are at once something and something else. Familiar and strange, childish and sophisticated, boring and interesting, naive and knowing, stable and unstable, material and immaterial, prosaic and poetic. Simple things are sometimes the most complex. We look again and again, hoping to understand them. The longer you look, the stranger and more wonderful things become.
Extract from ‘Things Other Than Buildings’
About
Michael Meredith is Professor and Associate Dean at Princeton University School of Architecture. Hilary Sample holds the inaugural IDC Professorship in Housing Design at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Recent built 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.