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Architect. Research & Design. 1/2 of @architensions . Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP @columbiagsapp

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As @architensions is working on several projects that aim to redefine domesticity in different regions , from South Asia to West Africa and the United States @nickroseboro and I are also working on a book that recenters the conversation of housing from its domesticity. This article for @brooklynrail is a sneak peak of the topics and interests that are shaping our research. Thanks @nilegreenberg for the invite. Link in bio #domesticity taken in Brooklyn, New York by @orsiniale

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From Space to Kinship
Alessandro Orsini @orsiniale | Architensions @architensions
A lecture on Architecture and the Practice of Commoning

October 12, 2026, 2:00 pm. 115 Avery

M.Arch. Core Studio I – Fall 2026
Cohabitation Acts:
Commons, Rituals, Conflicts, and Some Paradigms of Architecture
Valerio Franzone, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor — Bukhtawar Shahbaz, TA @bukhtawars

@gsappcore1 @columbiagsapp by @orsiniale

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“You who enter here, consider what you see and then tell me if so many wonders are made for deception or for art,” Vicino Orsini. Sacro Bosco, Pirro Ligorio, 1547. taken in Bosco Sacro Di Bomarzo by @orsiniale

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Must be the season of Mid Terms.

M.S.AAD STUDIO: Water Commoning Futures: Hidden Creeks, Ponds, & Rivers of New York City studies water politics and explores how these hidden bodies of water relate to the city above, through architecture, policies, traditions, and histories, creating ecological and social relationships that shapes the city and its spaces.

Studio Instructor: Alessandro Orsini from @architensions
Studio TA: Arryan Siingh (@arryan_s_siingh @_asa.made)

Picture credits: Arryan Siingh

The mid term was critiqued by:

Nick Roseboro of @architensions
Edoardo Capella of @velia.biz
Val Flanon

M.S.AAD cohort of 2027 sit for their Studio Midterm held at Cornell Tech.

Students present their research on the history of Minetta Creek.

Students:
Qian (Julia) Xiang - left
Hanna Jun - centre
Zigyang (John) Xu - right

Students present their design ideas for Collect Pond

Students:
Daniel Girgis - left
Chung-En (Brian) Lin- right

Haochen (Harry) Weng presents Critical Cartographies on Collect Pond.

Students present their design toolkits for Canal Street.

Students:
Nishanti Srinivasan - left
Hsin-Ju (Cheryl) Lin - centre
Hsingtzu (Jessica) Hsu - right

Hsin-Ju (Cheryl) Lin presents Assemblages for Canal Street.

Students present their critical cartographies for Harlem River.

Students:
Carmmel Taricka Edison - left
Xiaoyan (Tracy) Xu - centre
Ja’Shawn Keys - right

Students present their research on Sunfish Pond.

Students:
Molly Morgan - left
Ruikai Liu - right taken in Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech by @orsiniale

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Cape Town, August 2025. Another diary: 1. The ocean meets the continent, 2. Faraway so close, 3. Strelitzia Reginae, 4 A modernist facade, 5. Ilze, 6. Some special ones, 7. Zeitz taken in Cape Town, South Africa by @orsiniale

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10 months ago

FRAGMENTS OF DISABILITY FICTIONS—a project by @nachoglezgalan @davidgissen @architensions (@orsiniale @nickroseboro ) opens today at the Chicago Cultural Center for the @chicagoarchitecturebiennial curated by Artistic Director @flor_ness

The project explores speculative elements drawn from past, future, and existing disabled lives in NYC. Through a narrated story and different artifacts, it depicts worlds in which disabled cultures manifest themselves—illustrating their flourishing, struggles, negotiations, and fights.

Developed with the guidance of a group of disabled scholars, activists, and policy makers including Neta Alexander, Victor Calise, David Serlin, and Eman Rimawi-Doster @the_eman_meow_rimawi_show

Exhibition team @sharonacr and @yotamoron , @architommy.go @coffeeaddictt17 @a.ngiemendoza, @normankeyesiii , @soupbrain.yuna , @lajjamehta , @nataliamolina___ , @nurnuri_arc , @aistyaracharmita , @sherryaine ; Voice by @sophieschulman ; ASL interpreting: @allhandsinmotion / Diana Abayeva (DI on screen) and @akmariakaye (HI); Photos by @go.rashi

With the support of: Yale School of Architecture @yalearchitecture , Barnard College @barnardcollege @bcarchitecture , Graham Foundation @grahamfoundation , The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University @columbiagsapp , Acción Cultural Española

Thanks also to Associate Curators @kommerswender and @millinersdotter Assistant Curator Gabriela de Paula Weinert, Producer Sandy Guttman, Editorial Team @isabmore and @bgsanti taken in Chicago Cultural Center by @orsiniale

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A selection of the student work for my Advanced Architectural Design “Water Commoning Futures: Hidden Creeks, Ponds & Rivers of New York City” @cornellaapnyc Summer 2025. The studio explores the politics of the liquid ecologies that shaped the city and its social relationships. Here is a selection of the fantastic work student produced. Special thanks to our TA @loooogn_yu and to Cathy Lang Ho and Robert Balder for their warm welcome and attention to details Photo 1: collective map/models of the sites 2-3 : Canal Street work by Zuming Yang @automess.official , Mridula Kalyanasundaran @mridula_kalyan Arryan Singh @arryan_s_siingh , 4-5 Sunfish Pond work by Garcelle Allen @g.lacey_ Yimiao Sun @yimiao.s Fah Vangtook @fahpaphawarint , 6-7 Minetta Brook work by Alvaro Luna @alvaroaluna Amay Rathi @amay__rathi Yong Zhu @theyooooonnnnn , 8-9 Collect Pond work by Linzi Liu, Shengcheng Fu @shengcheng_cc Rishika Choudri @rishikachoudri 10-11 Gowanus Canal work by Ria Adhimulam @ria_adhimulam1221 Lingjie Lu , 12-13 Horse Brook work by Khushi Shah @ks_khushi1901 Jin Wook Jang @kylejan Sanjiang Ding. taken in Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech by @orsiniale

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The City of Thousand Hills. January 2025. A partial diary of a very special trip. #architecure #landscape by @orsiniale

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2 years ago

[scroll down for English] ☀️Siena è la tappa numero 23 della rubrica Giro d'Italia che dal 2021 racconta il Paese, dalle città ai piccoli centri, attraverso parole e fotografie. Il viaggio nella città toscana, raccontata con un testo di Alessandro Orsini e il contributo fotografico di Olivo Barbieri, apre il magazine di Artribune e, come sempre nella rubrica, ci mostra un volto insolito dei luoghi attraversati, grazie alle diverse sensibilità degli autori e delle autrici invitati/e. In questi 4 anni abbiamo raccontato un'Italia lontana dalle guide tradizionali, definendo al contempo un atlante bellissimo della scrittura e della fotografia attuale nazionale. Grazie a chi ha partecipato finora e a chi parteciperà nei magazine futuri. La prossima tappa sarà Bologna...

☀️ Siena is the stop number 23 of the Giro d'Italia column which from 2021 tells the story of the Country, from the cities to the smallest towns, through words and photographs. The journey to the Tuscan city, told throughout a text by Alessandro Orsini and the photographic contribution of Olivo Barbieri, opens the Artribune magazine and, as always in the column, shows us an unusual face of the places crossed, thanks to the different sensibilities of the invited authors. In these 4 years we have described an Italy far from traditional guides, while defining a beautiful atlas of current national writing and photography. Thanks to those who have participated so far and to those who will participate in future magazines. The next stop will be Bologna...

#siena #fotografia #photography #giroditalia #italia #viaggio by @orsiniale

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I am excited to teach another edition of “Just Practice: Considering the Just in Architectural Practice,” a Professional Practice seminar this Fall 2024 @columbiagsapp . The course continues a dialogue around radical practicing and the synergies among the diverse expertise necessary for the built environment. The seminar stresses the importance of architecture practice as a collective endeavor opposed to the historical legacy of the master as the single creative power in the practice. The seminar addresses the discipline’s exclusionary dynamics to prompt models that allow architects to reclaim agency over the design processes, ethics, and the condition of labor under which architecture operates.
Photo 1: Early Drawing Class, MIT School of Architecture, 1903, Photo 2: Pietro Perugino, Christ Handing the Keys to Saint Peter (1482), Photo 3: The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group, 2022, Photo 4: Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London , 1851. #professionalpractice #radicalpractices #justpractice #gsapp taken in Columbia GSAPP by @orsiniale

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Tomba Brion, San Vito d’Altivole, Italy. Carlo Scarpa 1968-1978. It is difficult to capture the complexity and beauty of this architecture, its details, materiality, craftsmanship. #carloscarpa #tombabrion by @orsiniale

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SHA 50 Years celebration @stevenhollarchitects . A photo of me at my desk working on the Sunslice House, 2008 circa. #sunslicehouse #stevenholl taken in Steven Holl Architects by @orsiniale

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