For over 30 years, architects and designers from around the world have been coming to Portland every April to present at Architalx broadening awareness and understanding of architecture, landscape architecture, and design by sponsoring lectures that foster evocative and creative dialogue within the design community and with the general public.

Join us Monday, April 15 as Hilary Sample of MOS Architects speaks on “Unconventional Practices”.

Hilary Sample will discuss architecture as a practice that can be radically inclusive. Its work is to attempt to move things forward in unconventional ways. Through a focus on institutional, educational, collective residential buildings, and public spaces, design focuses on culture and experiences. How does working within a select set of things produce a practice? How might it produce culture? How does practice engage design and a range of audiences? As architecture intersects each kind of project and space, how is culture produced? This talk presents select architecture and design work of MOS, from books to buildings alongside a set of questions about design and making a contemporary unconventional practice.

Hilary Sample is an architect based in New York City. With Michael Meredith, she co-founded the internationally acclaimed Studio MOS. Her work focuses on the creation of cultural and educational spaces within vacant spaces, through collective housing, schools, community centers, galleries, and public art installations. She is the recipient of multiple international awards and is a Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and holds the inaugural IDC Foundation Professorship in housing design and culture.