Rosario Talevi is an architect, curator, editor and educator working at the intersection of critical spatial practices, site-based pedagogy, and ethics of care.

Her practice explores architecture as a form of agency and as a form of care—both in its transformative capacity and in its potential to act otherwise. She often works through fieldwork, informal gatherings, and small-scale spatial gestures that emerge in dialogue with places and the people who inhabit them. Much of her work unfolds collectively, through shared processes and in response to specific contexts.

Rosario is a founding member of Floating University, a natureculture learning site located at the former Tempelhof airport, where she co-directed the organisation (2019-2022) and curated the Urban Practice programme (2020-2021) as well as the Climate Care festival across its three editions (2019, 2021, 2023). The festival engaged with theory and practice at the intersection of climate challenges, ethics of care, and environmental humanities. Today, she continues to dedicate her time to the association’s ongoing initiatives.

Between 2016 and 2021, she collaborated frequently with raumlaborberlin on projects such as the Urban School Ruhr and the Chicago Architectural Biennial. She also served as research curator for the practice-based project Making Futures and co-edited its resulting publication (Spector, 2022).

Rosario has held teaching and research positions at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Technical University Berlin, and Berlin University of the Arts. She was a visiting professor for Social Design (2021-2022) at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) in Hamburg and the Eco-Social Design (2023-2025) at the Free University of Bolzano.

She is a founding member of Soft Agency, a diasporic group of female architects, artists, curators, scholars, and writers working with spatial practices. Projects with Soft Agency include Landscapes of Care Journal for the Copenhagen Architecture Festival (2021) and Caring (2020), a public programme at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

In 2022, Rosario was a fellow at the Thomas Mann Haus in Los Angeles, California. 

She speaks internationally about her practice in both institutional and non-institutional contexts, and her work and writing have been widely published and exhibited.

Raised in Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin and is the single mother of Florentina Talevi (born 2003).