Sample, Hilary

Hilary Sample is a designer, writer, and teacher. Her professional practice engages interdisciplinary research engaging design, environment, and technology and includes projects in New York, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Ms. Sample’s design work has been published widely and exhibited at the Van Alen Institute, MoMA, the Municipal Arts Society, the UB Dyett Gallery, and the Boston Society of Architects. She was a project architect with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York. Her research focuses on both the physical and conceptual aspects of maintenance and their intersection with architecture and urbanism. Her forthcoming book, Sick City: A Global Investigation About Urbanism, Infrastructure and Disease, focuses on cities in trauma. Ms. Sample’s writings have been published in Praxis, NY Arts Magazine, 306090, Building Material, and Insights. She has received Graham Foundation Grants, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Whitney Humanities Center Grant. Prior to teaching at Yale, she taught at Northeastern University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Buffalo, where, in 2004–2005 she was awarded the Reyner Banham Teaching Fellowship.