1995 Master of Architecture
Joshua Ramus

Joshua Ramus
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design

is the founding principal of REX and leads the firm’s think-tank of diverse professionals and remains intimately involved in all the office’s work. In 2016, Ramus was the first American recipient of the Marcus Prize, the $100,000 biennial international architecture award conferred by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and the University of Wisconsin. He has also been credited as one of the “5 greatest architects under 50” by HuffPost; the world’s most influential young architects by Wallpaper*; the twenty most influential players in design by Fast Company; “The 20 Essential Young Architects” by ICON magazine; and the “Best and Brightest” by Esquire. In 2020, Ramus was honored by the experimental performance company STREB with their Action Maverick Award. He has been Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University, Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University, and a visiting professor at Columbia University, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Syracuse University. Ramus holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, where he earned the inaugural Araldo Cossutta Fellowship and the SOM Foundation fellowship, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, magna cum laude with distinction in the major, from Yale University. Ramus was a founding partner of OMA New York in 2001 and remained its principal until he rebranded the firm as REX in 2006.