Joseph Rosa est conservateur d'architecture et de design à The Art Institute of Chicago. II est l'auteur de nombreuses publications dont 2X4/design series 3 (2005), Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture (2004), Yves Behar fuse-project/design series 2 (2004), Next Generation
Architecture: Folds, Blobs, and Boxes (2003), ROY/design series 1 (2003), Albert Frey, Architect (1990/99), A Constructed View: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman (1994), et Adolf Loos: Architecture 1903-1932 (1996). Il a aussi enseigné au Southern California Institute
Of Architecture (SCI_ARC), au California College of the Arts, au College of Environmental Design à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley et à la Graduate School of Architecture, planning, and Preservation de la Columbia University.