Julian Rose

Julian Rose is a historian and critic of art and architecture. From 2012 to 2018, he was a senior editor at Artforum, and he regularly contributes to a wide range of publications including Aperture, Architectural Review, Artforum, Bookforum, Log, Perspecta, and October. His work as a cofounder of the award winning design studio Formlessfinder has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Rose received a BA in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University and an MArch from Princeton University, and he has taught architectural design and history at Columbia University and Princeton. His book Building Culture, excerpted here, is about the architecture of contemporary art museums and was released by Princeton Architectural Press in September 2024.