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Lecture by Hilary Sample (MOS)
Presented as part of CCA's Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, September 27, 2010, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Hilary Sample is currently completing her book Sick City: A Global Investigation into Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Disease. She is a principal of the interdisciplinary architecture and design practice MOS, which has grown greatly since its founding in 2003 but continues to operate, she says, around one large table. The firm's approach involves playful experimentation, serious research, and old-fashioned problem-solving. "We engage architecture as an open system of interrelated issues, ranging from architectural typology to digital methodologies, building performance, sustainability, structure, fabrication, materiality, tactility, and use as well as larger social, cultural, and environmental networks."
Sample is on the architecture faculty of Yale University and taught previously at the University of Toronto, Northeastern University, and SUNY Buffalo. Projects designed in her office have been showcased in numerous publications, including Architectural Record, Architect, A+U, Wallpaper, Surface, Space Korea, Mark, AV Proyectos, and the New York Times, and have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The firm's current work includes a villa in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and the public art installation Afterparty at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York.
Cosponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The 2010–11 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, HDR Architecture, Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., Pfau Long Architecture, ROMA Design Group, Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP, SmithGroup, WRNS Studio, Jensen Architects, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects, BraytonHughes Design Studios, Cass Calder Smith, Fennie + Mehl Architects, GCI Inc., Levy Design Partners, SRG Partnership, and Ryan Associates. Additional support has been provided by BIOS Design Collective and Andrea Cochran.
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