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Nick Roseboro

Nick Roseboro is a designer, musician, and co-founding director of Architensions, based in Brooklyn and Rome. The studio’s work and research focus on the commons and collectivity, producing projects ranging from buildings, exhibitions, publications, and writing. He has realized work internationally, including installation The Playground at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2022, the residential project House on House in Long Island in 2021, the San Ferdinando Vision Plan in Italy, and others in Myanmar, the United Kingdom, and Senegal.

He is co-editor of Architecture as Commoning Practice (2025), co-curator of the Collective Visions Festival 2023 in San Ferdinando, Italy, and has contributed to Vesper Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory: No. 10, Eden Project, Faktur: Documents and Architecture, and One House Per Day. He has presented in the exhibitions Terrae Aquae, Italy, and the Intelligence of the Sea, in the Italian Pavilion, 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change at the sixth edition of Chicago Architecture Biennial (2025); TIME IS PRESENT. Designing the Common for the fourth Porto Design Biennale (2025); and Reset: Towards a New Commons at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture (2022), A83 gallery, Tin Sheds Gallery, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, and Citygroup. His office was listed in the Wallpaper* USA 400, “people defining America’s creative landscape in 2024,” and was a recipient of Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2024.

Alongside practice, he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP and teaches studios at Barnard College. He held the Endowed Chair in Environmental Architecture and Sustainable Design at Sarah Lawrence College from 2023 to 2026 and has taught at Syracuse University, Università Iuav di Venezia, Kean University, and The New School. Roseboro received a Master’s in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia GSAPP and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The New School.

Work

Yoma Collective Housing

House on House 2021

Architecture as Commoning Practice - Porto Design Biennale

Fragments of Disability Fictions - Chicago Architecture Biennial

The Playground Coachella

Senegal House

Collective Visions Festival

Blurring Boxes

Dikhroos - Greenpoint Open Studios

Aesop World Trade Center

Courses

Course	Semester	Title	Student Work	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
ARCH4023‑1	Fall 2026	Architectural Drawing & Representation I		Amelyn Ng, Ekin Bilal, Maria Alejandra Linares Trelles, Ray Wang, Nick Roseboro		M.Arch I Only Architecture Required Visual Studies* Representation	113 Avery + 504 Avery, 505 Avery, 600 Avery, 200 Buell North, 300 Buell North, 300 Buell South M 9 AM - 1 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	10586

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