Joshua Prince-Ramus
Co-founder & President, REX / Architect, Seattle Central Library, Guggenheim Las Vegas Museums
REX is an international architecture and design firm based in New York City; the office is led by Joshua Prince-Ramus. Buildings currently under construction include the Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; Museum Plaza, an art center and mixed-use waterfront development in Louisville, Kentucky; and the new headquarters for Vakko, Turkey’s preeminent fashion house, in Istanbul. Projects in the design phase include the Forward Residence in Manhattan, and Vestbanen, a multi-use development including the new Deichmanske Library and Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway.
Joshua Prince-Ramus, REX’s president and co-founder, was a founding partner of OMA New York—the American branch of the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture—and served as its director until redefining the U.S. office as REX in 2006. At OMA New York, he was partner-in-charge of the Seattle Central Library and the Guggenheim Hermitage and Guggenheim Las Vegas Museums. Mr. Prince-Ramus received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with distinction from Yale University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, where he was the first Araldo Cossutta Fellow and an SOM Fellow. In 2007 he was the Eero Saarinen Professor at the Yale School of Architecture in collaboration with Erez Ella.