Joshua Prince-Ramus was the partner-in-charge of the celebrated Seattle Central Library, when he was the head of the New York outpost of the (OMA) Office for Metropolitan Architecture. OMA is the architecture firm founded by Rem Koolhaas. Check out this video clip of Joshua discussing the Seattle Central Library:
Tuesday, March 6, 7PM, Cummings Art Building - Room Art 2
Prince-Ramus has since separated from OMA, using its existing New York office to establish a new venture in partnership with another former OMA architect Erez Ella. OMA’s two offices were already legally and physically separated, and a minority of the architects in New York had experience in the Rotterdam office. “At some point, we took stock and realized that we were better off being two offices that collaborated when it was mutually beneficial,” says Prince-Ramus. The new firm will be known as REX, or Ramus Ella Architects.
In the split, REX will continue working on a performing arts center in Dallas (see photo above), a multi-disciplinary building at CalTech, and a mixed-use development in Louisville, Ky. Meanwhile a campus building at CalTech will be run by OMA. The two firms will continue to collaborate on current and future projects.
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