LECTURE / Joshua RAMUS REX
Joshua Ramus, FAIA, NOMA, is the founding principal of REX, an internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm. Joshua’s work challenges and advances building paradigms, producing inventive designs that offer new and inspiring aesthetic experiences. Recent work includes the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York, The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown, and 2050 M Street in Washington, D. C. Joshua’s current projects include a pair of mixed-use skyscrapers in Perth, two residential towers as part of the redevelopment of the iconic Domino Sugar Factory site, two hybrid retail and cultural hubs for Kia Motors in Korea, an office tower in Brisbane, and the Necklace Residence on Long Island.
Seminal projects include the AT&T PAC Wyly Theatre in Dallas, the Vakko Fashion & Media Headquarters in Istanbul, and the Seattle Central Library; while he was a founding partner of OMA New York (rebranded as REX in 2006). Among his many honors are two AIA National Honor Awards, a U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology National Honor Award, Time magazine’s Building of the Year, IDA Building of the Year, an Urban Habitat Award of Excellence, three Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize awards, Architectural Digest’s AD100; and numerous state AIA, ArchDaily, Architect/Progressive Architecture, Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Review, Architizer, and Wallpaper* design awards. Fast Company named REX one of the World’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Architecture three times. He has also been credited as one of the 5 Greatest Architects Under 50 by HuffPost and one of the World’s Most Influential Young Architects by Wallpaper*.
Joshua is the first American recipient of the Marcus Prize and was honored as one of Engineering News-Record’s Top 25 Newsmakers. Ramus is a Visiting Critic at the Harvard GSD and has been a Visiting Professor at Yale and Rice. He holds an MA from Harvard, where he earned the inaugural Araldo Cossutta Fellowship, and a BA in Philosophy, magna cum laude, from Yale.
