Cultivating Knowledge
Educator, Mentor, and Coach
John M. Rossi has served as guest lecturer and reviewer for advanced architectural design and urban planning studios as well as environmental studies and interdisciplinary global studies. He is instrumental in engaging students and their instructors with real-world, real-time development planning and design projects and helps to cross pollinate areas of academic study with real-world initiative and action of professional consortiums. The list of institutions John has worked with include:
Boston Architectural Center, Boston Massachusetts
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Rhode Island
Roger Williams University, Providence Rhode Island
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
John has also coached alpine ski racing as an (EPSIA) certified professional ski instructor and teaches advanced motorcycle safety and riding skills with the Penguin Road Racing School at New Hampshire International Speedway. He is a contributing feaure writer for Desmo Leanings, the official magazine of the Ducati Owners Club of the United States and is founder of VivaDUCATI.com, a society of discerning motorcycle owners and enthusiests.
Published Articles
ACUI Bulletin - Association of College Unions International
“Campus Sustainability – Design That Makes Sense for Today and Tomorrow,”
June, 2005
“Adaptive Reuse of Buildings for Future Generations – Connections to the
Past,” May, 2003
“Student Opinions Guide Transformation of Historic Chapel,” May, 1998
“Seminar Searches Future for Issues that Shape Campuses,” January, 1999
AIArchitect
“No Future Vision in Broadcast Television,” August, 1997
“The Jury System in Architectural Education,” December, 1996
American Institute of Architects
“Specialties in Educational Facilities,” June, 1997
“Managing Historic Educational Facilities—Conservation, Safety, and Building
Performance,” June, 1997
Architecture Boston
“Review of David Byrne’s Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information,”
November 2004
Banker & Tradesman
“Building Preservation Pivotal to Overall Community Health,” March, 1998
“New Hearth and Home in Boston’s Historic South End,” November, 1997
Boston Business Journal
“Concrete Evidence of Shift in Building Options,” October, 2003
Boston Globe
“Vision for Medford Square,” February 2004
“A Grander View: Residents Lobby to Create a Vibrant Somerville
Neighborhood,” June, 1999
Boston Society of Architects Chapter Letter
“Jury System in Architectural Education, Valuable or Destructive?” May, 1997
Citizens Voice
“Turning Huber Breaker into Historic Site,” September, 1999
“Development Plans for Huber Breaker Park Outlined,” July, 1999
“Huber is Big Just Like Local History,” August, 1999
“Support Shown for Preserving Huber Breaker,” August, 1999
Desmo Leanings, USDESMO, Ducati Owners Club
“Art and Design of Ducati Motorcycle, Interview with Pierre Terblanche”
Winter 2005
“Mental Preparedness for Track Day,” Winter 2004
“Motorcycle Preparedness for Track Day,” Summer 2004
Green@Work
"What it takes to LEED, Making Buildings Green, USGBC Standards,”
May/June 2006
Hazleton Standard Speaker
"Castle is a Perfectly Sound and Reusable School Building,” January, 1998
Motorcyclist Post, Voice of America's Motorcyclist
“VivaDUCATI, Cover story and Exclusive Test of the 2008 DUCATI Hypermotard,” November 2007
Peoria Times Today, Peoria, Illinois
“Riverfront Development Progress,” April 2001
The Times Leader
“Colliery’s Fate Tied to Cash,” September 1999
“Forum Rallies Support for Restoring Breaker,” August, 1999
“Ashley’s Huber Breaker Considered as Tourist Attraction,” April, 1999
“Fight with School Board over Castle, Not Over Yet,” February, 1999
“Old High School Can be Saved,” January, 1999
Scranton Times
“Ashley Coal Breaker Will Be Preserved by Boyhood Friends,” July, 1999
“City Plans to Punish Landlords, Sure to Cause More Problems,” June, 1999
Scranton Tribune
“Huber Breaker Envisioned as Historic Site,” July, 1999
Somerville Journal
“Magoun Square, Creating Urban Fabric” December 2000
“Vision Unveiled for Assembly Square,” March, 1999
“Building a Great City Requires Planning & Collaboration at the Start,”
December, 1998
Journal of the National Association of College Auxiliary Services
“Resurrecting a 140 Year Old Spirit, Williams College Goodrich Hall,” April, 1999
“Project Definition and Program Planning, An Inclusive Process,” August, 1997
Exhibitions, Symposiums, and Tours
2007 Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, Massachusetts, Tutto Italiano
Ducati 1098 raffle to benefit Museum
2007 Americade Tour Expo, Lake George, New York, Improve Street Riding
Safety with Track Day Skills.
2007 Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, Massachusetts, Interview with
Erik Buell—the 24-yeear journey as a motorcycle designer and of the
company that bears his name.
2004 Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, Massachusetts, Art and Design
of the Italian Motorcycle with Pierre Terblanche, Director of Design, Ducati
Motors, Bologna Italy, 2004
2002 Association of College Unions International, Chicago, Illinois, Tour of
Bartlett Hall, University of Chicago
2001 Boston Society of Architects, Boston Massachusetts Citizen based
Planning
2000 Association of College Unions International, New York, New York,
Future Search Revisited
1998 Association of College Unions International, Anaheim, California,
Future Search Conference
1997 Build Boston Conference, Boston, Massachusetts Student Speak
1997 National Association of College Auxiliary Services, Boston,
Massachusetts Program Planning To plan for the future you must include
the future in the process
1996 Build Boston Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, Adapt, the
"boundary-less" career
1996 The Boston Architectural Center, Boston, Massachusetts, "Blurring
the Lines"—symposium and exhibition on multidisciplinary design teams.
John Rossi Company, Selbert Perkins Design, Double Decker Studios
and Visual Dialogue
1994 Museum at The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York
Chair design exhibited in "Hello Again” Recycling for the Real World
Affiliations
American Institute of Architects, Member: Associate AIA 1991 – present
Participant: Flowed Meadow Charles River, Sustainability Charrette, 1995
Association of College Unions International 1997 – 2005 Facilitator: Future
Search, Academic Campus of Tomorrow, Anaheim, CA, 1997
Boston Society of Architects, Member: 1991 – present Chair/Organizer:
Art and Design of the Italian Motorcycle with Pierre Terblanche
Director of Ducati Design, Bologna, Italy, 2004
Chair/Organizer: Housing in America Conference at Build Boston, 2000
Speaker: Young Designers Professional Development Institute 2000 – 2001
Member: Advisory Council of ArchitectureBoston Magazine, 2000 – 2001
Member: Editorial Board of ArchitectureBoston Magazine, 1997 – 1999
Co-chair: BSAdventure, 2000 – 2004
Chair: BSA Education Network, 1998 – 1999
Writer: BSA Corporate Advisory Council, 1998
Member: BSA Communications Task Force, 1997
Facilitator: Student Speak, Build Boston Conference, 1997
Member: BSA Long Range Planning Committee, 1996
Speaker: “Adapt: A Symposium on the Boundary-less Career,” Build Boston
Conference, 1997
Executive Committee and Logistics Co-Chair, BSA Washington Street
Dialogue, 1995
Future Search Conference participant, author of report on the profession of
architecture, 1994
Huber Breaker Preservation Society, Ashley, Pennsylvania
Member: Advisory Board Architectural Master Planner, 1998 – 2001
Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Project, Boston, Massachusetts
Speaker: Advanced Planning Workshop for Performing Arts and Cultural
Groups, 1997, 1998
Magoun Square Revitalization, Somerville, Massachusetts
Advisor: Urban Design Standards and Review of CVS Development, 2000
Medford Square Planning Committee, Medford, Massachusetts
Member: Appointed by Mayor Michael McGlynn, 2004 – 2006
Mystic View Task Force, Somerville Massachusetts 1998 – present
Co-founder: Community-led planning initiative, 140 acre site, 1998 – 2002
Moderator: Smart Growth Anti-Sprawl a PBS Documentary “StoreWars”, 2001
National Association of College Auxiliary Services, 1998 – 2005
Speaker: “College Campus of the Future,” Eastern Conference, 1998
Speaker: “To Plan for the Future You Must Include the Future in the Process,”
National Conference, 1997
Speaker/Guide: “Campus Centers of Harvard, MIT, and Northeastern
University,” 1997
National Association of College and University Business Officers, 2006
Professional Ski Instructor of America, 1979 - 1984
Seattle AIA Chapter, Seattle, Washington. 1999
Society of College and University Planners, 1996 - 2007
Architectural Excellence Awards Committee, 2006
Speaker: “Participatory Planning,” Mid-Atlantic Conference, 1998
Somerville Community Corporation, Somerville, Massachusetts
Member: Board of Directors, 1998 – 1999
USDESMO, Ducati Owners Club of the United States, Northeast Regional
Representative, 2003 – present
Americade Seminar, Lake George, New York, Improving Street Riding with
Track-Day Skills, 2005
Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, Massachusetts, Art and Design of
the Italian Motorcycle with Pierre Terblanche, Director of Design, Ducati
Motors, Bologna Italy, 2004
Waldorf School, Lexington, Massachusetts
Keynote Speaker: Stewardship Retreat, Sustainability and Campus Renewal
for a Second Century, 2007
Co-Chair of the Campus Renewal Committee, 2007 - present
Member: 20/20 Long Range Planning and Campus Asset Strategic Action
Committee 2004 - 2006