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Joshua Ramus

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.

Ramus has designed renowned buildings including the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York, New York; The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; the AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; the Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey; the Seattle Central Library in Washington state; and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Ramus was raised between Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Beaufort, North Carolina.

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. 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.

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.

Ramus's recently[when?] completed work includes 2050 M Street, a premium office building that hosts CBS's Washington, DC bureau as well as 205 North Quay and 9 The Esplanade, office towers in Brisbane and Perth, Australia, respectively. His projects under design or construction include 15 The Esplanade, 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 on Long Island, New York.

Ramus is the John Portman Visiting Critic in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an AIA New York TORCH Mentor. He has been the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University, and a visiting professor at Columbia University, The Cooper Union, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Syracuse University. An early member of the TED Brain Trust, Ramus shared REX's design methodologies at TED2006 and TEDxSMU.

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." 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.

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