Architensions Selected to Design Installation for Coachella 2020

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INDIO, CA - Architensions has been selected to design an installation for The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2020, alongside Cristopher Cichocki, Kiki Van Eijk, Estudio Normal, and Oana Stanescu. Augmenting the festival goers experience, the installations will infuse new color, light and meaning, and a unique sense of place and discovery into the Empire Polo Club over two weekends from April 10-12 and April 17-19, 2020.

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. 

“For us, being selected for Coachella is an incredible opportunity to develop a project entirely around our research. We hope that the project will allow the visitors to build a personal narrative around the experience of the festival intertwined with the architecture itself,” says Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro of Architensions. This is the second time at Coachella for Nick, who played at the festival in 2016 alongside LCD Soundsystem, as part of a tribute to David Bowie and Prince. 

Architensions’ 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.

Recent projects by Architensions include the Aesop World Trade Center Store, Writing Pavilion in Brooklyn, and Dikhroos, a public space activator.

Portrait by Aslan Chalom.

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About Architensions

Architensions (ATE) is an architectural design studio operating as an agency of research led by Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro and based in New York & Rome. The studio was founded in 2010 as a vehicle to investigate the city and its spatial form and was re-founded in 2013 with Nick Roseboro. Diverse in backgrounds and creative experience, the studio looks at architecture, design, and the city with a perspective rooted in site-specificity enabling us to explore new ways to connect history and culture.

Architensions works at the intersection of theory, practice, and academia, focusing on architecture as a network condition in continuous dialogue with the political and social context and aiming to create new possibilities for the contemporary city. Our search for an aesthetic is an ever-changing process grounded in drawings, collages, sketches, and models. We like discrete geometries and grids, but we constantly seek new interpretations of their spatial outcomes. Researching and teaching for us is a mode of practice, not just in the academic space but also in the studio. We believe in a pedagogical approach to practice: we design and we learn at the same time. We expand our practice through writing to critically connect the ontology of our work with the discourse and curate to index the diverse architectural trajectories of our time. We see design as a way to define fields of action for the built environment that reconnect urbanism and architecture through processes that promote inclusivity and challenge the paradigm of architecture as a financial tool.

Our work and research have been published in international magazines such as Domus, Frame, Wallpaper, Architectural Digest, and exhibited at the Casa dell’Architettura in Rome, the Van Alen Institute, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Center for Architecture, and the Java Project Gallery in New York. In 2015, Libria published the volume Forma Urbana, focusing on studio research through a selection of projects and writings. Architensions was commissioned to design a large public installation for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2022. In addition, the studio was profiled as the Next Progressives in Architect Magazine in September 2020, and in 2021, Cultured Magazine selected Architensions as part of their inaugural young architects list.

Alessandro Orsini is an architect and founding principal of Architensions with experience working on a wide range of projects both internationally and in the US. His work focuses on architecture at the intersection of the political, social, and environmental spatial networks with specific interests on redefining new modes of collective living. Alongside practice, he teaches design studios at Columbia University GSAPP and has served as a guest critic in various schools of architecture. He was also the director of the Summer Study Abroad Program from 2017-2019 at Hillier College of Architecture and Design at NJIT. Alessandro has contributed to journals including Vesper, Studio Magazine, and Forma Urbana, Architensions’ first book, published by Libria in 2015. Alessandro received his Master’s in Architecture “Summa Cum Laude” at Roma Tre University in Rome and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University GSAPP.

Nick Roseboro Assoc. AIA, is a designer and musician with experience across many creative disciplines. Following his music studies at The New School, he worked on various editorial and exhibition projects that evolved toward his first collaboration with Architensions. Roseboro’s research revolves around user interaction centered around perceptions of our environment. In particular, Roseboro’s interpretation of the urban context reads the city as a complex organism of social, civic, political, and ludic insertions within an ever-changing reality. In addition, he is interested in redefining architectural practice through curatorial, pedagogical, and cross-disciplinary means of exploration toward new architectural outcomes.

Roseboro has led many projects, including the experimental space Aesop World Trade Center, a large-scale installation for Coachella 2022, and a house in Long Island that questions aspects of domesticity. In Spring 2020, Roseboro joined “Design Advocates,” a network of designers and architects that provide research and design services to nonprofits and marginalized communities. His interests in the social aspects of design have led to his participation in various symposia and presentations on the studio’s research. Roseboro is the editor and designer of Architensions’ first book Forma Urbana, published in 2015 by Casa Editrice Libria and presented as a catalog to the studio’s first solo exhibition, Fifth Dimensional Cities, 2016. 

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