JOSHUA RAMUS, FAIA, NCARB, NOMA
Founding Principal

REX’s founding principal, Joshua leads the firm’s team of diverse professionals and remains intimately involved in all the office’s work. Joshua was the first American recipient of the $100,000 Marcus Prize, the biennial international architecture award conferred by the Marcus Corporation Foundation and the University of Wisconsin, and has been honored by the experimental performance company STREB with its Action Maverick Award. 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; “The Best and Brightest” by Esquire; and “The Top 25 Newsmakers” by Engineering News-Record.

Joshua is currently the John Portman Visiting Critic in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an AIA New York TORCH Mentor. Committed to supporting architectural education, 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, among others. An early member of the TED Advisory Board, Joshua has shared REX’s design methodologies at several TED conferences, and lectures frequently at universities, cultural institutions, and symposiums around the world.

Joshua holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, where he earned the SOM Fellowship and the inaugural Araldo Cossutta Fellowship, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, magna cum laude with distinction in the major, from Yale University. He is NCARB-certified and a registered architect in states throughout the U.S. and Australia, and in the Netherlands.

 

ALYSEN HILLER FIORE, ASSOC. AIA
Associate Principal

Alysen is an associate principal at REX, co-managing the office with Joshua Ramus. She currently leads Domino Site B, a pair of 53-story residential towers on the Brooklyn waterfront that will complete the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar Factory site. Preceding Domino, Alysen directed the design team for the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center from its competition stage in 2014 to its opening in September 2023. Alysen was also a project leader on the re-cladding and renovation of Five Manhattan West, a Brutalist landmark straddling New York Penn Station’s rail yard; the Necklace Residence on New York’s Long Island; and the Wakefield School Performing Arts Center in Virginia.

Before joining REX in 2012, Alysen worked on a wide range of architectural projects with several world-renowned architectural firms. At Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in Copenhagen, Denmark, she worked on the House of Culture & Movement in Frederiksberg, Denmark, and TEK, a mixed-use proposal including retail, hotel, and exhibition space in Taipei, Taiwan. While at Zago Architecture in Los Angeles, she worked on the proposed development of a multi-unit social housing complex as part of Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, a MoMA-commissioned project exploring new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the 2008 foreclosure crisis. The exhibition opened at MoMA in 2011.

Alysen recently served on the Industry Advisory Group of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Building Operations. She is also an Open Door Mentor with AIA New York and has been a visiting professor at The Cooper Union. She holds a Master of Architecture, summa cum laude, from the University of Illinois at Chicago (where she received a full tuition scholarship), as well as Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art & Design and Journalism, both with honors, from the University of Iowa.

 

ADAM CHIZMAR, AIA, NCARB
Associate Principal

With REX since 2011, Adam is an associate principal and has been core to the firm’s design and intellectual rigor for over a decade. He is currently leading a hybrid retail and cultural hub for Kia Motors in Seoul, South Korea, as well as 9 & 15 The Esplanade, a pair of mixed-use towers under construction in Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, Australia. Adam is an expert in performing arts centers, having served as project leader for REX’s designs of The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University, the Shenzhen Opera House, the Komische Oper Berlin Expansion, the Wakefield School Performing Arts Center in Virginia, the Mercedes-Benz Future Lab & Museum in Stuttgart (which houses several performance components), and—until leading the design of The Lindemann—the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center with Alysen Hiller Fiore. He was also a key team member for the Yongsan International Business District “Project R6” Tower in Seoul, South Korea, and the transformation of Five Manhattan West in New York.

Adam makes frequent public speaking engagements about REX’s work, including a lecture at the Boston Architectural College at the beginning of each semester, where he also serves as a jury member four times a year.

Adam graduated from The Ohio State University with a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, both with honors. He is NCARB-certified and licensed in New York.

 

RAÚL RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, INT’L. ASSOC. AIA
Associate Principal

Having joined REX in 2014, Raúl is an associate principal at REX and an author of numerous articles in international academic journals, as well as an architectural travel guide published by Mairea Libros. He currently leads 205 North Quay, a 37-story office tower in Brisbane, Australia; the Necklace Residence on New York’s Long Island; and a luxury apartment in Manhattan, all under construction. In addition, Raúl contributed his expertise in the design and detailing of complex interiors to projects such as 2050 M Street, Five Manhattan West, the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University, 9 & 15 The Esplanade, and the Calvin Klein Voyeur House in Singapore.

Prior to REX, Raúl worked at Vicens + Ramos Architects in Madrid, managing the design of several high-end residential estates in Europe and America, as well as institutional and religious buildings in Spain, such as the Ice Pavilion at the Zaragoza International Exhibition 2008, a health complex in Coslada, and the Parish Church of Solace in Cordoba.

Raúl was an associate professor at Universidad Nebrija in Madrid and a lecturer in architecture at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). A licensed architect in Spain, he holds a Ph.D., summa cum laude; a Master of Architecture, for which he was awarded the Alejandro de la Sota Prize for best thesis; and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture & Urban Planning, all from UPM.