Julian Geltman, 2025 Rotch Scholar
Julian Geltman has been awarded the 2025 Rotch Travelling Scholarship.
2025 Rotch Travelling Scholarship Competition focused on the theme Itinerant, and challenged applicants to explore how architecture is constructed by the momentary gathering of spatial factors, people, material, and social protocols that give shape to culturally rich yet temporary and itinerant architectures, such as built environments where the gaze of commercial interests has receded enough for something else to surface, spaces where it is the character of the occupation that makes the space, not the other way around. These are architectures with no assumptions of forevers or fixities, they appear and disappear but remain in the cultural imagination.
Julian Geltman is a NYC-based architectural designer and critic. He is currently a Junior Designer at O-N, a Red Hook-based practice. Previously, he has worked in offices in Boston, New York, Chile and Mexico, and has taught design studios at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. His research interests broach the mundane and the massive, specifically as they relate to the salvaging of vestiges of utopian thinking. He is also a collaborator with The Critical Broadcast Lab at MIT, Co-producing with Ana Miljacki the podcast I Would Prefer Not To, which recently received the Architecture in Media Award from AIA New York. Julian is originally from Massachusetts and received his M.Arch from M.I.T. and his Bachelors from Oberlin College.