DDes, Harvard University
MArch, University of Pennsylvania
BSArch, Texas Tech University
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."
Nesbit has published widely in various journals, book chapters, and is editor of several books, including Constructing Invisibility (ORO, 2025), Technical Lands: A Critical Primer (Jovis, 2023), Nature of Enclosure (Actar, 2022), Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment (Routledge, 2019), Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations (Routledge, 2018), and host and producer of three podcasts series. He is currently an associate professor and interim director of graduate studies in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, and lecturer in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
