Ben Barsotti Scott

I’m a writer and landscape architect based in New York City. I also curate exhibitions, primarily through a collaborative project called Bad Little Brother. And I’m a student of historical geography, currently researching a series of civilian-led blockades of US Navy terminals in the final years of the Vietnam War.

Occasionally, I’m also a teacher and critic at schools of art and architecture: see the syllabus for my 2022 undergraduate course on contemporary architectural criticism here. Even more occasionally, I write for architecture and urban geography publications like the the New York Review of Architecture, Critical Planning Journal, and Journal of Landscape Architecture.

You can see my full CV here and you can contact me here.

Ben Barsotti Scott
urban historical geographer and independent curator in New York, NY.

See some of my recent work below. You can contact me here.

RESEARCH
Newtown toxic creek
2023︎︎︎present

Following my review of Newtown Odyssey: An open-air opera for, about, and on a creek for the New York Review of Architecture, I conducted interviews with the opera’s composer and librettist. I’m currently developing an academic article that further explores Newtown Odyssey’s fallen hero, Citizen Scientist #1, as a paranoid figure of US settler colonialism.