Rouhe worked in the Berlin office of Daniel Libeskind in 1996-97. He also worked in the New York offices of Marble Fairbanks and Leslie Gill before beginning the common room project in 2006. He has been a studio instructor and lecturer in the Columbia University/ Barnard College Undergraduate Architecture Program since 2001. He is an assistant adjunct professor of architecture at the New Jersey School of Architecture in Newark and has lectured and taught design studios at the New York Institute for Technology. He studied architecture at the Southern California Institute for Architecture and received his MArch in advanced architectural design from Columbia University.