Architensions

Architensions (ATE), led by Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro, is an architectural design studio operating as an agency of research, and based in New York and Rome. Architensions works at the intersection of theory, practice, and academia, focusing on social behaviors and architecture, both in continuous dialogue with the context and aiming at creating new experiential scenarios. The studio seeks to define fields of actions for the built environment that reconnect urbanism and architecture, through spaces that establish a narrative within the city and oppose the paradigm of architecture as a financial tool. Our work and research have been published and exhibited internationally at the Casa dell’Architettura in Rome, the Van Alen Institute, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Center for Architecture, and the Java Project Gallery in New York. In 2015 Libria published the volume “Forma Urbana” a focus on Architensions’ research on experience, the fifth dimension of architecture.

Biography

Nick Roseboro
Nick Roseboro, Assoc. AIA studied design and music in New York City at the New School. He co-leads Architensions as a principal designer since 2013. His research revolves around user experience, material tectonics and the representational aspects of architecture. He has led several international design competition projects, including a project for the City of Ryde in Australia shortlisted for the second phase among 175 entries. Nick is overseeing the design and construction of multiple projects in New York, among them the recently completed space for Australian brand Aesop in the World Trade Center hub. He has served as a guest critic at Columbia University GSAAP, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, and The Hillier College of Architecture and Design at NJIT.

Alessandro Orsini
Alessandro Orsini, P.P.C., is an architect registered in Europe, and founding principal of Architensions with fifteen years of international practicing experience. He studied in Rome at RomaTre School of Architecture where he graduated summa cum laude and in New York at the Graduate School of Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Before founding Architensions, he worked with Steven Holl Architects as project architect of the Sunslice House and in the team of many projects such as the Herning Museum of the Art in Denmark, the Cite’ de l’Ocean and du Surf in France. Alongside practice, Alessandro teaches design studio at Columbia University GSAPP and he is also the director of the Summer Study Abroad at the Hillier College for Architecture and Design at NJIT.