Nick Roseboro
Nick Roseboro is a multidisciplinary designer, musician, educator, and co-founder of the international research and design studio Architensions based in Brooklyn and Rome. The studio's work and research focus on the commons and collectivity, spanning small to large-scale projects, exhibitions, curatorship, publishing, and essays. The work and research are directly related to domesticity and housing, labor and leisure, and bringing forth new perspectives on public space 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 with the spatial and built environment. He continues to research tensions between labor and leisure through teaching, projects, and essays, including the co-edited volume Architecture as Commoning Practice (ZicZic 2025) and A Playground as a Site of Reality, published in Vesper. Journal of Architecture, Arts & Theory: No. 10 Eden Project in 2024.
Recent projects include the Visioni Collettive Festival in San Ferdinando, Calabria, Italy (2023); large-scale installation The Playground for the 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 at the Venice Biennale (2025), the Chicago Architecture Biennale (2025), and the Porto Design Biennale (2025), a83 Gallery in New York City (2022), and the Center for Architecture in New York (2022). 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 his practice, he was 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, and The New School, and 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.