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  1. Joshua Ramus

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    REX’s founding principal, Joshua leads the firm’s team of diverse professionals and remains intimately involved in all the office’s work. Joshua was the first American recipient of the $100,000 Marcus Prize, the biennial international architecture award conferred by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and the University of Wisconsin, and has been honored by the experimental performance company STREB with its Action Maverick Award. He has also been credited as one of “The 5 Greatest Architects Under 50” by HuffPost; “The World’s Most Influential Young Architects” by Wallpaper*; “The Twenty Most Influential Players in Design” by Fast Company; “The 20 Essential Young Architects” by ICON; “The Best and Brightest” by Esquire; and “The Top 25 Newsmakers” by Engineering News-Record.

    Joshua is currently the John Portman Visiting Critic in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an AIA New York TORCH Mentor. Committed to supporting architectural education, he has been the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University, and a visiting professor at Columbia University, The Cooper Union, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Syracuse University, among others. An early member of the TED Advisory Board, Joshua has shared REX’s design methodologies at several TED conferences, and lectures frequently at universities, cultural institutions, and symposiums around the world.

    Joshua holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, where he earned the SOM Fellowship and the inaugural Araldo Cossutta Fellowship, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, magna cum laude with distinction in the major, from Yale University. He is NCARB-certified and a registered architect in states throughout the U.S. and Australia, and in the Netherlands.

  2. REX

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    REX is an internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm based in New York City, led by Founding Principal Joshua Ramus, FAIA, and Principals Alysen Hiller Fiore, Assoc. AIA, Adam Chizmar, AIA, and Raúl Rodríguez García, PhD, Int’l. Assoc. AIA. Recently completed work includes the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York, New York, about which The New York Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, raved, “Lower Manhattan could have hardly asked for a more spectacular work of public architecture;” The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, which, according to Sam Lubell in The New York Times, takes “theater architecture into new territory, pushing the notion of flexibility to its limits; to the point where you wonder if the whole idea of a theater—or any building for that matter—might be changing with it;” and 2050 M Street, a premium office building that hosts CBS’s Washington, DC bureau, which Josephine Minutillo, editor in chief of Architectural Record, declared “sits like a jewel in the city’s Golden Triangle business district.”

    The firm’s work under design or construction includes a pair of mixed-use skyscrapers in Perth, Australia; two residential towers on the Brooklyn waterfront as part of the redevelopment of the iconic Domino Sugar Factory site; a hybrid retail and cultural hub for Kia Motors in Seoul, South Korea; office towers in Brisbane, Australia and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and the 4,050 m² (43,600 SF) Necklace Residence on Long Island, New York.

    Seminal projects in REX’s growth and continued advancement of architectural typologies include the AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; the Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey; and the Seattle Central Library in the State of Washington. Joshua led the Seattle Central Library—hailed by architecture critic Herbert Muschamp in The New York Times as “the most exciting new building it has been my honor to review in more than 30 years of writing about architecture”—while a founding partner of OMA New York (the firm he later rebranded as REX).

    Testimony to the firm’s design excellence and innovation, REX and Joshua’s projects have been recognized with top accolades from peer groups, including two American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Honor Awards, a U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology National Honor Award, an American Library Association National Building Award, Time magazine’s Building of the Year, the International Design Awards Building of the Year, two American Council of Engineering Companies’ National Gold Awards, a Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Award of Excellence, inclusion in the prestigious Aga Khan Award and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize contests, listing in Architectural Digest’s AD100, and numerous state AIA, Society of American Registered Architects, ArchDaily, Architect/Progressive Architecture, Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Review/MIPIM, Architizer, and Wallpaper* design awards. Fast Company named the firm one of the World’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Architecture three times and ranked it No. 25 on its 2024 World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies list.

  3. Dione Lee

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    Dione Lee is a Singaporean designer and artist based in New York City. She designs experiences with the team at HUSH, where her work focuses on translating brands and stories into holistic environments, interfaces, and interactions. She has worked across commercial and cross-disciplinary projects spanning print, digital, and experiential media. Her practice is rooted in an interest in behavioral psychology and computer-mediated systems, using data, interaction design, and spatial storytelling to shape how people move, feel, and make decisions within designed environments.

  4. Benjamin Meade

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    Benjamin Meade is a Senior Design Director at Alloy Development, an architecture and development firm located in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Meade challenges the architecture and real estate disciplines by questioning existing practices and proposing new ways to benefit the social and built environment. Benjamin has been a part of the team since 2012, leading the design effort in the architectural, visual, and marketing departments.

  5. Charlotte Wessell

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    Charlotte Wessell is a strategic advancement, governance, and communications professional with extensive experience supporting mission-driven organizations and academic institutions. She is currently the Director of Development at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she leads advancement efforts in support of the school’s academic mission and strategic priorities.

    Previously, she spent nearly a decade at The Cooper Union, finishing her time as the Director of the Office of the President and Board Relations, where she managed the operations and strategic priorities for the President’s Office, Cabinet, and governing Board. Charlotte holds a master’s degree in Public History and worked in historic preservation advocacy prior to her career in higher education. She serves as the President of the Cobble Hill Playschool Board of Directors and lives in Carroll Gardens with her family.

  6. Celia Chaussabel

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    Celia Chaussabel is an architect and educator currently based in Buffalo, New York, where she is the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellow at University at Buffalo. Her creative practice is focused on how narratives and aesthetics shape cultural perceptions of construction waste. Celia’s work speculates on what it would mean for the architectural profession to consider the sourcing, maintenance, and re-circulation of materials as critical design work. She designs architecture, furniture, exhibitions, video games, animations, and other mediums that bring awareness of the life cycles of the materials that make up the built environment.

    Celia is also co-founder of NOT NOT, a design practice exploring overlooked dimensions of architecture as sites for political and creative inquiry. NOT NOT projects often begin with constraints such as construction debris, material temporality, maintenance, and zoning loopholes to investigate cultural aesthetics and potential. NOT NOT’s design work has been exhibited internationally, including the Venice Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, the Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, Salone del Mobile in Milan, and Princeton School of Architecture.

    Celia previously worked at Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis as a designer and researcher on the Manual of Biogenic House Sections (ORO Editions, 2022) and at Bellastock in Paris and Rotor in Brussels on research around material reuse. She holds a graduate degree from MIT (SMArchS 2025) and is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University (B.Arch 2019). She has previously taught at MIT and Tecnologico de Monterrey.

  7. Ekin Bilal

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    Ekin Bilal is a researcher and designer based in New York City. His work investigates how maintenance, material circulation, and back-of-house infrastructures shape the life of buildings and cities. Through architectural design and experimental representation, he explores the political and creative potential of overlooked systems—zoning loopholes, informal repairs, deconstruction practices, and the everyday labor that sustains the built environment. Prior to teaching, Ekin worked with public library systems on community-driven planning efforts and has held worked with MIT’s Urban Risk Lab, Bureau Spectacular, and New Affiliates amongst others. He holds an SMArchS from MIT (2024) and a B.Arch from Cornell University (2020).

  8. Taylor Loutsis

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    Taylor Loutsis is the creative director and founder of Studio Loutsis and the art director of AN Interior. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of branding, image-making, and the built environment, he brings together extraordinary creative talent and leads interdisciplinary teams that reimagine how visuals, spaces, and stories come to life.

    His work with leading studios, including 2×4 and Pentagram, combined with global experience spanning Germany, New York, Singapore, and San Francisco gives him a broad perspective on design’s role in shaping human experience. Taylor has partnered with clients such as Apple, Arc’teryx, REX, Prada, Brown University, National Sawdust, and Snøhetta, always striving to create work with clarity and impact. He has also led initiatives with the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), advancing how signage, exhibition, and environmental design engage public life.

    Taylor holds a BSD in Graphic Design from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, teaches at Parsons, and serves as a visiting critic at SVA, Parsons, Pratt, and Rutgers.

  9. Pamela Cabrera

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    Pamela Cabrera is a Peruvian-American architect, climate engineer, aspiring artist, and senior associate at Transsolar KlimaEngineering. Her work centers on designing new-material assemblies for climate-driven environmental design of spaces and landscapes. Her work is grounded in creative thinking and an interdisciplinary approach between art and science.

    Cabrera holds a Master of Design Studies in Energy and Environment from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union, where she is also a member of the adjunct faculty. Her work has been published in Building and Environment, Bloomberg Magazine, Building Simulation, and Advances in Architectural Geometry, among others.

  10. Clara Syme

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    Clara Syme is a founding member of A83’s nonprofit board. She is an architect based in NYC where she co-directs a83 and the design firm Chibbernoonie. Since operating a83 she has curated over 10 exhibitions, organized events and educational workshops, contributed to the production of fine-art print editions, and is director of archival material at a83. Syme received her Bachelor of Architectural Studies from University of Waterloo and her Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. Syme has taught design studios at University of Waterloo School of Architecture and Parsons School of Design. Prior to joining Chibbernoonie she has worked for the firms LAMAS, BAS, LGA, Powerhouse Company, LSS, and 3rd Uncle Design.