Peter D. Rose is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1991. He teaches in the design studios, recently including the option studios Notes from the Underground: Boston Disconnect, Architecture(s) of Geopolitical Transgression, Sighting the Cirque du Soleil, Learning (from artists) to Experiment, Marked Down: Detroit and the Mortification of Memory, and Untitled. He also teaches the course Visualizing Information and the third semester core studio.

Rose is a principal of The Rose + Guggenheimer Studio founded in 2002, and has been the principal of The Office of Peter Rose, Ltd. in Cambridge, MA since 1993. Until then he was the principal of Peter Rose Architecte, the firm in Montreal he founded in 1974. Rose's work has won numerous awards and has been extensively published, including Architectural Record's "Record Houses 1998" and The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design by Jeremiah Eck. His work has been exhibited widely in museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and at the Venice Biennale. Rose's work includes residential, commercial, institutional, and urban design in both Canada and the United States. Among earlier projects are the Canadian Centre for Architecture, an addition to the Brookside School at the Cranbrook Educational Community, and an athletic training facility for the Chicago Bears. Recent projects include an addition to the J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville; the Sert Gallery at Harvard University; residences in Vermont, Connecticut, and New York; and a master plan for the Old Port of Montreal. Current work includes; a residence on Martha's Vineyard; reconstruction of the Milton Academy Science Building; and a wellness center in western MA.

Rose has taught at McGill and Princeton universities and the University of Toronto. He received the BA and MArch from Yale University.