Assistant Professor
Architecture and Urbanism
Jeffrey S. Nesbit
- Email: jeffrey.nesbit@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.groundingdesignresearch.com
Jeffrey S. Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and founding director of the research group Grounding Design. His experience spanning over a decade includes leading design teams for public architecture and large-scale urban projects, along with managing sponsored design research projects for city governments, local institutions, and NGOs. Nesbit’s research focuses on processes of urbanization, infrastructure, and the evolution of "technical lands." Currently, his research examines the 20th-century American spaceport complex at the intersection of architecture, infrastructure, and aerospace history. Nesbit has published several books, journal articles, and book chapters on “infrastructural urbanization” and host and producer of three interdisciplinary podcasts series. Nesbit is currently an Assistant Professor in History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at Temple University, and previously taught at several institutions, including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Northeastern University, University of North Carolina Charlotte, University of New Mexico, and Texas Tech University.
Doctor of Design, Harvard University, 2020
Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Texas Tech University, 2006
Selected Awards:
Institute for Public Architecture, Fall Fellow Residency, 2020.
“Soil for Space: A Critical History of Earthmoving at Cape Canaveral,” 2019 Penny White Project Fund. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture.
“Aquatic Resiliency,” New York City Aquarium and Public Space Competition, ArchOutLoud. Queens, NY, 2016, finalist.
Texas Tech Alumni Association Barnie E. Rushing Outstanding Researcher Award, 2015.
ACSA Open Cities, Design and Research Merit Award, 2014.
Selected Works:
César Lopez and Jeffrey S. Nesbit (2025) Exclusions, Edges, and Ecologies: An Architecture… Barcelona/New York: Actar Publishers.
(in contract, forthcoming)
Jeffrey S. Nesbit, ed. (2025) Constructing Invisibility: Infrastructure, Militarization, and the Extreme Environment. Novato, CA: ORO Publishers.
(in contract, forthcoming)
Jeffrey S. Nesbit (2024) Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA’s Space Complex. New York: Routledge.
Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Charles Waldheim, eds. (2023) Technical Lands: A Critical Primer. Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
Jeffrey S. Nesbit, ed. (2022) Nature of Enclosure. Barcelona/New York: Actar Publisers.
José Gámez, Zhongjie Lin, and Jeffrey S. Nesbit, eds. (2020) Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment. New York: Routledge.
Jeffrey S. Nesbit and Guy Trangoš, eds. (2019) New Geographies 11: Extraterrestrial. Cambridge and Barcelona: Harvard Graduate School of Design and Actar Publishers.
Joshua Nason and Jeffrey S. Nesbit, eds. (2019) Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations. New York: Routledge.