Tobias Armborst
Tobias Armborst is an assistant professor of art and urban studies at Vassar College, and a principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners, a New York-based architecture, planning, and research firm.
With Interboro, Tobias won the New Practices New York Award in 2006, and the Architectural League's Young Architects Award in 2005. Interboro’s current projects include a temporary sculpture park and tree nursery in Tribeca, a neighborhood plan for Newark, New Jersey, an installation at the Casablanca Architecture Biennial and an exhibition on “naturally occurring retirement communities (Norcs)” in New York City. Interboro’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburg, the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Currently Tobias is co-curating the International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam 2009, which deals with the “Open City.”
Tobias is a member of the New York Foundation for the Arts’ artists advisory board and a co-founder of The Metropolitan Exchange, a non-profit research cooperative in downtown Brooklyn whose mission is to broaden the local architecture and planning discourse by sponsoring lectures, exhibitions, and research initiatives. He received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Diplom-Ingenieur from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.