Artist, Achitectural Designer
→Juke Jose is a Brooklyn-based architectural designer and artist from Manila, Philippines. His work engages architecture, installations, and objects through the ideas of partial and kapwa, cultivating relationality, care, and the beauty of our living.
Short Bio
→Juke Jose is a architectural designer and artist from Manila, Philippines, now based in Brooklyn, NY. His practice moves between architecture, installation, and object-making, weaving the concepts of partial, incompleteness as an opening toward possibility; and kapwa, the Indigenous Filipino psychology of a shared self.
→Through research, spatial experimentation, and design, Juke explores interconnectedness and entanglements with community, culture, place, and history. His projects aim to hold interiority with tenderness, reveal the value of shared histories, and celebrate the beauty of our living.
Full Bio
→Juke Jose is a architectural designer and artist, born and raised in Manila, Philippines, who migrated to the United States through San Francisco, CA. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
→Juke operates between architectural, spatial, and object-oriented practice, weaving together the concepts of partial and kapwa. Partial, defined as “existing only in part; incomplete,” gestures toward the beauty of what could be, rooted in lightness, softness, and impermanence. This framework hopes to cultivate kapwa, a core Indigenous Filipino psychology, “a recognition of shared identity, an inner self shared with others.” (Enriquez 2004)
→Through spatial experimentation and assembled installations, Juke seeks to deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with community, culture, place, environment, and history, in ways that nurture care. By drawing from the surrounding environment and incorporating domestic and cultural images, spaces, and objects, his work aims to hold interiority with tenderness and reveal the value of collective histories, celebrating the beauty of our living.
→Juke holds a Bachelor of Architecture and, in 2020, co-founded NOMASAAU to create a platform for minority architecture students at the Academy of Art University and beyond. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), where he also serves as a Graduate Research Assistant. In 2025, he co-founded Beside, an experimental publication at Columbia GSAPP, where he is the editorial director. He is also an alumnus of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California’s Bay Area Housing Internship Program (NPH BAHIP), where he worked at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) as a housing development assistant project manager, supporting the creation of community-centered affordable housing in San Francisco.
→Previously, Juke worked as an architectural designer at Haddock Studio, contributing to all phases of design for residential and commercial spaces—including Baggu SoHo in New York City. In 2021, he founded Partial, a design practice working across space, objects, and furniture, where he directed the design and construction of Two Two, a gallery-shop in Oakland, CA.
→His first artistic project was a public mural in his adoptive home of 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.