Architensions is an architectural design studio operating as an agency of research led by Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2011
With @alhaq_org, we continue to monitor cases of reported attacks by Israel on medical facilities in Gaza. This task is made harder by Israeli disinformation; in the thread below, we demonstrate that Israeli media statements following the al-Ahli hospital blast were misleading.
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Preliminary analysis by FA, @alhaq_org & @earshot_ngo into the #AlAhli hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.
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Today marks 3 years since the Beirut port explosion that destroyed 70,000 homes and left around 300,000 homeless and 250 disabled. In pursuit of economic accountability we, alongside @FebrayerNetwork & @MadaMasr, investigated the events of 4 Aug 2020 across 3 investigations.
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100% . NYC Department of Care is needed.
I still say that NYC could use a Department of Care.
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Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of ‘Chronograms of Architecture’, a collaboration with @e_flux to rethink Charles’ evolutionary diagrams in relation to the contemporary ecology of architecture. Learn more here: jencksfoundation.org/explore…
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We remember those who have died, and we celebrate and stand with those living who, despite the devastation, continue to fight, endure, and persist. #WorldAIDSDay
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Today, on World AIDS Day, we are revisiting pieces by @jacobcascio and @jacobrmoore, who both attend to the lives, memories, struggles, and necessary work left to do on HIV.
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Tomorrow at 6pm our team in conversation with Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi @marcelolopezd at the Center for Architecture
Join the Decolonizing Suburbia team Thu, 8/4 as they present on their project for the Center for Architecture's exhibition, Reset: Towards a New Commons. The project explores the potential of the detached house to accommodate more diverse forms of life: bit.ly/3RR71lZ
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Thank you @evahagberg for the great review of the show.
"I came away feeling like I’d been gently prompted to think deeply and generously about all the people whom I share space with, whether in close proximity or at the larger scales of neighborhood, city, and country." Read @EvaHagberg's review in @archpaper: bit.ly/3bnVeuO
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Tomorrow at the Center for Architecture.
Join the Decolonizing Suburbia team Thu, 8/4 as they present on their project for the Center for Architecture's exhibition, Reset: Towards a New Commons. The project explores the potential of the detached house to accommodate more diverse forms of life: bit.ly/3RR71lZ
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Aging is not a problem. The problem is the range of barriers—physical, social, financial, and cultural—that make it difficult to grow older with dignity and in community. Join us Mon, 7/11, 6:30-8pm for the next talk in our Reset exhibition program series: bit.ly/3OKCWlX
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House on House. Part of an ongoing investigation on how to transgress the single family home.
This Renovation on Long Island Hacks the Conventions of Single-Family Suburban Living: x.dwell.com/house-on-house
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So I have a lot to say about the Juneteenth museum project but one thing that does not bode well for BIG’s engagement with the city of Fort Worth is that the skyline in the rendering is not Fort Worth’s
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Catch up on NYC architecture news: @Architensions designs The Playground at Coachella, Idlewild Environmental Science Learning Center by @handelarch and @mathewsnielsen opens to the public, and more: bit.ly/3KIDTbD
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On the news!
Catch up on NYC architecture news: @Architensions designs The Playground at Coachella, Idlewild Environmental Science Learning Center by @handelarch and @mathewsnielsen opens to the public, and more: bit.ly/3KIDTbD
The Playground
Catch up on NYC architecture news: @Architensions designs The Playground at Coachella, Idlewild Environmental Science Learning Center by @handelarch and @mathewsnielsen opens to the public, and more: bit.ly/3KIDTbD