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 Washington state; and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum 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.

Career 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 completed work includes 2050 M Street, as well as 205 North Quay 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.

Recognition 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.

Ramus's projects have been recognized with two American Institute of Architecture (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 (IDA) Building of the Year, two American Council of Engineering Companies' National Gold Awards, a Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Award of Excellence, three Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Outstanding Project Awards, and numerous state AIA, Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), ArchDaily, Architect/Progressive Architecture, Architect's Newspaper, Architectural Review/MIPIM, Architizer, and Wallpaper* design awards.

Personal life Ramus married a Dutch citizen in 2004, after which the couple hyphenated their surnames as "Prince-Ramus." Ramus reverted to his original name after their divorce. Ramus has one child, whom he raised in Tribeca, New York.

Notable work

Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum & Guggenheim Las Vegas Museum (2001) Las Vegas, Nevada 9/11 Response: Don't Rebuild. Reimagine. (2002) New York, New York Seattle Central Library (2004), Seattle, Washington Caltech Annenberg Center for Information Science & Technology (2006), Pasadena, California Governors Island (2007), New York, New York Museum Plaza (2007), Louisville, Kentucky Forward Residence (2008), New York, New York Kunsthaus Zürich Extension (2008), Zurich, Switzerland Munch Museum & Stenersen Museum Collections (2008), Oslo, Norway Madison Avenue (Doll)House (2008), New York, New York Vestbane (2008), Oslo, Norway Yongsan Experiment (2008), Seoul, South Korea AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre (2009), Dallas, Texas Low2No Sustainable Development (2009), Helsinki, Finland Vakko Fashion Center & Power Media Headquarters (2010), Istanbul, Turkey Songdo Landmark City Block A4 (2010) Incheon, South Korea Victoria & Albert Museum at Dundee (2010), Dundee, Scotland CLC & MSFL Towers (2011), Shenzhen, China World Financial Center Winter Garden (2011), New York, New York Equator Tower (2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mercedes-Benz Future Lab & Campus Extension (2012), Stuttgart, Germany McDonald's Future Restaurant Platform (2012) Yongsan International Business District "Project R6" (2012) Seoul, South Korea Activision|Blizzard Headquarters (2013), Santa Monica, California Calgary New Central Library (2013), Calgary, Canada Surya (2013), Dallas, Texas Calvin Klein Voyeur House Singapore (2014), Kallang Airport, Singapore Al Jazeera Headquarters Buildings (2015), Doha, Qatar Wakefield School Performing Arts Center (2015), The Plains, Virginia Canti-Lever House (& Astroid House) (2016), New York, New York Farley Annex High Garden (2016), New York, New York The Museum of the 20th Century (2016), Berlin, Germany Five Manhattan West (2017), New York, New York IIᴑᴑ (2017) New York, New York Shenzhen Opera House (2020), Shenzhen, China CDMX Mash-Up (2018), Mexico City, Mexico 2050 M Street (2020), Washington, District of Columbia Komische Oper Berlin Expansion (2020), Berlin, Germany 15 The Esplanade at Brown University (2023), Providence, Rhode Island Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center (2023), New York, New York 205 North Quay Tower (2025), Brisbane, Australia 9 The Esplanade (2025), Perth, Australia The Necklace Residence (2025) Long Island, New York