Joshua Ramus (born August 11, 1969) is an American architect, educator, and founding principal of REX, an architecture and design firm based in New York City.[1]
Ramus holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Yale University (1991) and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University (1996), where he earned the inaugural Araldo Cossutta Fellowship and the SOM Fellowship.[12] Ramus rowed at Yale, was a member of the 1994 U.S. Pre-Elite Team, won a gold medal at the 1994 U.S. Olympic Festival, and competed in the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials.[13]
Career
Ramus joined the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1996. In 2001, he became a partner at OMA and moved to Manhattan to co-found OMA New York with Rem Koolhaas. In 2006, Ramus purchased Koolhaas's half of OMA New York and rebranded the firm as REX.[14]
Ramus's recently[when?] completed work includes 2050 M Street,[15] a premium office building that hosts CBS's Washington, DC bureau[16] as well as 205 North Quay[17] and 9 The Esplanade,[18] office towers in Brisbane and Perth, Australia, respectively. His projects under design or construction include 15 The Esplanade,[18] a mixed-use skyscraper in Perth, Australia; Domino Site B, two 50-story residential towers on the Brooklyn, New York waterfront, as part of the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory site; a hybrid retail and cultural hub for Kia Motors in Seoul, South Korea; and the 4,050 m2 (43,600 SF) Necklace Residence[19] on Long Island, New York.
Ramus is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in the first category, "granted to architects who have produced an extensive body of distinguished work that has been broadly recognized for its design excellence."[24][25] In 2015, Ramus became the first American recipient of the $100,000 Marcus Prize, a biennial international architecture award conferred by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and the University of Wisconsin.[26]
Ramus's projects have been recognized with two American Institute of Architecture (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 (IDA) Building of the Year, two American Council of Engineering Companies' National Gold Awards, a Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Award of Excellence, three Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Outstanding Project Awards, and numerous state AIA, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), ArchDaily, Architect/Progressive Architecture, Architect's Newspaper, Architectural Review/MIPIM, Architizer, and Wallpaper* design awards.[27][independent source needed]
Personal life
Ramus married a Dutch citizen in 2004, after which the couple hyphenated their surnames as "Prince-Ramus." Ramus reverted to his original name after their divorce.[28] Ramus has one child, whom he raised in Tribeca, New York.
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