→Juke Jose is an architectural designer and artist from Manila, Philippines, now based in Brooklyn, New York. Working across architecture, installation, and object-making, his practice investigates queerness and incompleteness as spatial and representational strategies for relation. Central to this work is kapwa, the Indigenous Filipino concept of shared self.
Through research, design, and spatial experimentation, Juke explores how community, culture, place, and history remain entangled in the spaces we inhabit. His projects seek tenderness, shared interiority, and the beauty of our living.
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→Juke Jose is an architectural designer and artist, born and raised in Manila, Philippines, and now based in Brooklyn, New York. His practice moves across architecture, installation, and object-making, investigating queerness and incompleteness as spatial and representational strategies for relation, softness, and possibility. Central to this work is kapwa, the Indigenous Filipino concept of “a recognition of shared identity, an inner self shared with others.” (Enriquez 1992)
Through spatial experimentation and assembled installations, Juke explores interconnectedness with community, culture, place, environment, and history in ways that nurture care. Drawing from domestic, cultural, and environmental images, spaces, and objects, his work seeks to hold interiority with tenderness, reveal the value of collective histories, and celebrate the beauty of our living.
Juke is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia GSAPP, where he also served as a Graduate Research Assistant. In 2025, he founded Beside (B–SIDE), an experimental publication at Columbia GSAPP, where he is Editorial Director. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Academy of Art University, where he co-founded NOMASAAU to create a platform for minority architecture students and allied communities. He is also an alumnus of the Bay Area Housing Internship Program, where he worked with Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation in support of community-centered affordable housing in San Francisco.
Previously, Juke worked as an architectural designer at Haddock Studio, contributing to residential and commercial projects including Baggu SoHo in New York City. In 2021, he founded Partial, a design practice working across space, objects, and furniture, and directed the design and construction of Two Two, a gallery-shop in Oakland, California. His first artistic project was a public mural in San Francisco’s Excelsior District, depicting laundry spaces as sites of care and community. His installation Time Has Brought Us Together has been exhibited at Kearny Street Workshop and the San Francisco Main Public Library.