The Dallas Architecture Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public education about architecture, design, public space and the urban environment, continues its 2025-2026 Lecture Series on Thursday, February 19, 2026. The Forum is pleased to present highly-respected architect and educator Hilary Sample of the award-winning firm MOS. This lecture will be held at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station in Dallas, Texas. Forum members may attend for free. Tickets for non-members will be available at the door - $5 for Students (with student ID), $25 General Admission. Check-in and pre-Lecture Reception will begin at 6:15 pm in the lobby of the Angelika.
Hilary Sample is Co-Founder of the New York-based architecture and design studio MOS. She is also the IDC Foundation Professor of Housing Design and coordinator of the Core III Studio at Columbia University's GSAPP. Since its establishment in 2003, MOS has won major national and international awards and been recognized in significant publications. Monographs about the studio include an issue of El Croquis and Maintenance Architecture. Sample has taught at Columbia GSAPP, Harvard GSD, Yale School of Architecture, and the University of Toronto. She has held the John G. Williams Teaching Chair at the University of Arkansas and the Reyner Banham Chair at the State University of Buffalo.
MOS undertakes projects diverse in scale and type, spanning throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Recent projects include the Petite École in France, a public pavilion for teaching design to children; Laboratorio de Vivienda in Mexico, a housing-focused education center; Krabbesholm School in Denmark, a complex of four art studios; and a photographer's studio, along with a collective affordable housing residence in Washington, D.C. 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. Sample, along with Michael Meredith, is a recipient of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum's National Design Award in Architecture, the United States Artists Award, and the Rome Prize.
