REX

REX is an internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm based in New York City, led by Founding Principal Joshua Ramus, FAIA, and Principals Alysen Hiller Fiore, Adam Chizmar, and Raúl Rodríguez García, PhD. Believing architecture should actively empower its users and communities—not simply be a representational art—REX challenges and advances building paradigms and promotes the agency of architecture. This ethos guides the studio’s aspiration to produce inventive designs so functionally specific that they offer new and inspiring aesthetic experiences.

REX is responsible for projects celebrated worldwide, such as the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (“Lower Manhattan could have hardly asked for a more spectacular work of public architecture,” The New York Times), The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University (“Takes theater architecture into new territory, pushing the notion of flexibility to its limits; to the point where you wonder if the whole idea of a theater—or any building for that matter—might be changing with it,” The New York Times), the AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, the Seattle Central Library (“The most exciting new building it has been my honor to review in more than 30 years of writing about architecture,” The New York Times), and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas. Joshua led the latter two projects while a partner of OMA New York, the firm he cofounded in 2001 and rebranded as REX in 2005.

REX’s projects have consistently received the profession’s top accolades, including two 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 Building of the Year, and a listing in Architectural Digest’s AD100. In 2024, Fast Company named REX on its World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies list.