We are pleased to announce Nile Greenberg as the 2025–26 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow. Throughout the fellowship year, Greenberg will teach design studio and courses in history and theory, while also advancing the ongoing research agenda Crisis Formalism. The proposition—developed with his office, Abel Nile New York, and partner Michael Abel—asserts that if architecture is to be meaningful, it must situate itself within the flows of crisis.
How can architecture maintain order within the scale and complexity of the polycrisis? Architecture that generates responses to visible crises does not encompass the disintegrated and fluid qualities from which the polycrisis is built. The proposal seeks to examine the conceptual, structural, and aesthetic qualities within this paradox. To make form through confronting crisis—rather than through resilience concepts or a complexity mindset—is to produce an architecture of collapse, of the paradoxical, of the illegible.
Nile Greenberg is a founding partner of Abel Nile New York, LLC (ANY), a New York City–based office that synthesizes structure, materials, culture, organizations, and media into architectural projects. ANY recently guest-edited the 2025 issue of Flash Art Volumes on the theme of “Crisis Formalism,” a dossier of architectural responses aimed at reintegrating architectural form and crisis.
Greenberg serves as architecture editor at The Brooklyn Rail, overseeing a section that focuses on the relationship between architecture and art. His published works include co-authoring The Advanced School of Collective Feeling (Park Books, 2023), a study of the relationship between physical culture and housing in the 1920s, and editing Two Sides of the Border (Lars Müller, 2020), along with curating the synonymous exhibition at Yale University.
He has taught as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University GSAPP and has presented his architectural work at the 2025 Venice Biennale, curated by Carlo Ratti; ETH Zürich; Cornell University; Spazio Maiocchi; the AIA Center for Architecture; the University of Melbourne; The Cooper Union; the University of Colorado; and other venues. ANY was recognized as New Practices New York 2020–23 by AIA New York.
Greenberg’s professional experience includes work at MOS Architects, SO–IL, and Leong Leong. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University.
Credits:
Figures 1–5. Book Vitrine, Vowels Showroom, New York; Fourth and Beach Housing, British Columbia; OBG HQ, New York, NY; Flash Art “Crisis Formalism” guest-edited by Michael Abel and Nile Greenberg; and Collapse Crisis Formalism, Hillview Reflux House. Figures courtesy of Abel Nile New York.