Nathaniel Rogers

Nathaniel Rogers, AIA, is a senior associate at Beyer Blinder Belle, an internationally renowned design and historic preservation practice based in New York City. As a project designer lead in the firm’s civic, cultural, and higher education studio, Nate has contributed to a wide variety of planning and architecture projects for high-profile institutions over the course of a decade. His clients include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Nate specializes in the creative challenge of integrating design interventions within historic settings and helping clients recognize the value embedded in existing buildings. As a designer, he seeks transformative solutions that reflect and strengthen institutional missions and cultures, linking the past to the future.

As a lecturer in the Department, Nate teaches “Contemporary Design in Historic Settings”, a required seminar for students in the Preservation Design concentration. His academic interests center on the philosophical and ethical aspects of combining new and old architecture, new directions at the intersection of historic preservation and sustainability, and the challenges of rehabilitating postwar modernist buildings.

Nate lives in Brooklyn, New York. He serves on the Vestry of Trinity Church Wall Street.

Education

Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, with Certificate in Ecological Architecture;
Recipient of the AIA Henry Adams Medal

Master of Science in Historic Preservation, University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, with high honors in the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Recent Completed and Current Work

“On the Boards”

Performing Arts Hall, Exhibition Galleries, and Children’s Library, the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida

Renovation of Chase and McCulloch Halls, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts

Academy Building Renovation and Expansion, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire

Adaptive Reuse of the Charles F. Hurley Building, part of the Paul Rudolph-designed State Government Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Recently Completed or Pending Built Work

Harvard University, Adams House Renewal
Phases 1 and 2, completed 2021-2023 (Phase 3 in construction).

Harvard University, Winthrop House Renewal
Completed 2017.

University of Pennsylvania, Quadrangle Renovation (in construction).

Reports and Master Plans

Colgate University, Lower Campus Space Needs Program (2022)

City of Somerville, Mass., Adaptive Reuse Master Plan for City Administrative Buildings (2021)

Toledo Museum of Art, Master Plan (2017)
Toledo, Ohio

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Master Plan (2013)
New York, NY

Publications

“Adaptation: Literature Review,” in Change Over Time vol. 2, no 2 (Fall, 2012)