Bryony Roberts

Bryony Roberts leads the design and research practice Bryony Roberts Studio based in New York. Roberts combines experience in studio art, architecture, and historic preservation to create projects that activate public spaces and historical sites around the world. For over ten years, Roberts has been designing site-specific projects that bring deep engagement with existing buildings and communities and find expression through experimental material craft. The practice has been awarded the Architectural League Prize and New Practices New York from AIA New York as well as support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the American Academy in Rome, where Roberts was awarded the Rome Prize for 2015-16.

Roberts also instigates research and publication projects about designing in response to social and cultural histories. She guest-edited the recent volume Log 48: Expanding Modes of Practice, edited the book Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation published by Lars Müller Publishers, and co-guest-edited Log 31: New Ancients. Roberts earned her B.A. at Yale University and her M.Arch at the Princeton School of Architecture. She teaches architecture and preservation at Columbia GSAPP.

GSAPP CONVERSATIONS

Columbia GSAPP faculty members Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) and Bryony Roberts speak about the relationship between performance and architectural space, and Roberts’ use of performance as a medium for critically engaging cultural history.

Recent Work

SOFT CIVIC
Miller Prize Project
Exhibit Columbus
Columbus, Indiana

OUTSIDE THE LINES
High Museum of Art
Atlanta, Georgia
Piazza Activation
Opened July, 2021

MARCHING ON
Bryony Roberts + Mabel O. Wilson + the Marching Cobras of New York
Commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture
2017-2018

LOG 48: EXPANDING MODES OF PRACTICE
Guest editor: Bryony Roberts
Thematic issue of Log
Winter/Spring 2020

PRIMO PIANO
Site-specific Installation
The American Academy in Rome
Cinque Mostre Exhibition
February-May, 2016

CORPO ESTRANEO
Bryony Roberts + Melissa Lohman
Site-specific performance
Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome
Supported by the American Academy in Rome
June 16, 2016

TABULA PLENA
Edited by Bryony Roberts
Lars Müller Publishers
Oslo School of Architecture
Columbia University GSAPP
May, 2016

WE KNOW HOW TO ORDER
Bryony Roberts + South Shore Drill Team
Performance at the Federal Center, Chicago
Chicago Architecture Biennial
October 2-3, 2015

INVERTING NEUTRA
Site-specific Installation
Neutra VDL House, Los Angeles
Supported by the Graham Foundation
July 13 - September 7, 2013

OBJECTIVE
Architectural League Prize Exhibition 2018
Site-specific installation
Parsons Gallery, New York
June - August, 2018.

Courses

Course	Semester	Title	Instructor	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
A4105‑14	Fall 2024	Advanced Studio V	Bryony Roberts	Architecture Studio AAD Studio Architecture Required	600 + 700 AVERY	FULL SEMESTER	10385
A6965‑1	Fall 2024	ADV V STUDIO – CLINIC	Bryony Roberts		TH 2 PM - 5 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	10536
A6843‑1	Fall 2023	Bodies and Public Space	Bryony Roberts	Architecture Elective Post-1800 N/W History & Theory	408 AVERY TH 11 AM - 1 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	10060