Nick Roseboro
Nick Roseboro is a multidisciplinary designer, musician, educator, and co-founder with Alessandro Orsini of the international research and design studio Architensions based in Brooklyn and Rome. The studio work and research are concerned with the commons and collectivity, ranging from small to large-scale projects, exhibitions, curatorial work, publishing, and essays. The work and research are directly related to domesticity and housing, labor and leisure, and bringing forth new public space perspectives in urban, suburban, and rural contexts. Roseboro’s interests include redefining design and research practice through curatorial, pedagogical, and cross-disciplinary exploration toward new creative and cultural production at multiple scales. He has recently been researching tensions between labor and leisure through projects and essays, including A Playground as a Site of Reality, published in Vesper. Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory: No. 10 Eden Project 2024, co-authored essay Log-in Labor, Log-in Leisure, in Faktur: Documents and Architecture - Issue 4, 2022, and co-authored essay Transcending the American Dream: House, Family & Domesticity in One House Per Day 2022.
Recent projects of his studio include the Visioni Collettive Festival in San Ferdinando, Calabria, Italy (2023); large-scale installation The Playground for Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival (2022); Townhouse of Seven Stories in London (2021), and House on House in Babylon, New York (2021). He has exhibited research and drawings at the Java Project Gallery (2016), a83 Gallery in New York City (2022), AIA New York | Center for Architecture (2022), and Modest Commons in Los Angeles (2023. His office was recently listed in the Wallpaper* USA 400, “people defining America’s creative landscape in 2024″ and recipient of Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard 2024.
Along with practice, he is the Endowed Chair in Environmental Architecture and Sustainable Design at Sarah Lawrence College. He has taught at Syracuse University, Università Iuav di Venezia, and The New School, and he has been a guest critic and lecturer at various schools across the US. Roseboro holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz and Contemporary Music from The New School and a Master of Science in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from Columbia GSAPP.