Contributors
Jack Murphyis executive editor ofThe Architect’s Newspaper andAN Interior. Previously he was editor ofCite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston; adjunct professor at the University of Houston; and assistant editor ofTotalization, edited by Troy Schaum and published by Park Books in 2019. He earned degrees in architecture from MIT and Rice University. He received an Honorable Mention for the Pierre Vago Journalism Award 2020 from the International Committee of Architecture Critics. In addition to his work as an editor, writer, and educator, Murphy has contributed to award-winning architecture practices in Boston, Austin, Houston, and New York.- Isabel Ling
Kristine Kleinis web editor ofThe Architect’s Newspaper. Prior to joiningAN she held editorial positions atDezeen andFine Homebuilding Magazine. She holds a B.S. in Magazine Journalism from Syracuse University, where she also minored in Spanish. In 2022, she received a M.A. in Historical Architecture and Sustainability from New York University and completed her coursework in London.
Daniel Jonas Rocheis news editor ofThe Architect’s Newspaper. Previously, he was a freelance journalist and an adjunct faculty member at Kean University. His writing has been featured ineflux,Brooklyn Rail,Faktur,PLAT,Pidgin,Architect Magazine,New York Review of Architecture, andCommon Edge. He holds degrees from the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design and Catholic University School of Architecture.
Paige Davidsonis associate editor ofThe Architect’s Newspaper. Prior toAN, she worked at architecture, interior design, and engineering firms. She received her Bachelor of the Arts in Architecture from Hobart & William Smith Colleges, where she also minored in history and studio art. She received her Master of Design in Interior Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Kelly Pauis design editor ofThe Architect’s Newspaper andAN Interior where she focuses on covering interior architecture, product design, andAN’s awards program. Previously, she covered design and architecture across product, interior, and other typologies at COOL HUNTING.
In addition to its editors,The Architect’s Newspaper works with writers from across the country and around the world to report on current happenings and assess recently completed projects. Our contributors supply readers with detailed and considered coverage of the latest architecture news and developments.
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Fred Bernsteinstudied architecture at Princeton University and law at NYU and writes about both subjects. He is the 2009 winner of the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award, given by the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for excellence in architecture writing, and a 2023 Arts and Letters Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which noted that "for more than 30 years, his writing ... has stood for integrity."
Lev Bratishenkois a writer and recovering curator in Montreal. His writing on architecture and classical music has appeared inThe Architectural Review,Cabinet,CBC Music,The Globe and Mail,The Guardian,Icon,Maclean’s,The Montreal Gazette,Opera Canada,Opera News, andUncube among others. From 2016 to 2023 he was the inaugural Curator Public at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and his most recent book is 21 Games You Can Play With A Cosmic House (Jencks Foundation, 2023).
Diana Buddsis a writer and editor interested in how design reveals stories about history and culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times,Fast Company,Curbed,Dwell, andWallpaper, among other publications.
Rita Catinella Orrellis a freelance design journalist based in New Jersey. She is a former products editor forArchitectural Record and currently contributes to publications includingOculus,Texas Architect,AN Interior, andThe Architect’s Newspaper. She is the author ofObjects of Desire: A Showcase of Modern Erotic Objects and the Creative Minds Behind Them and blogs about design at designythings.com and architectstoybox.com.
Emily Conklin is the former managing editor ofThe Architect’s Newspaper and a writer and design historian based in Manhattan.
Marianela D'Aprileis a writer in Brooklyn. She is the deputy editor ofNew York Review of Architecture. Her work has been published widely, including inThe Nation,Jacobin, andMetropolis.
Keren Dillardis an architectural designer, writer, and researcher from Yonkers, New York working in New York and New Jersey. In addition to her contribution to AN, Keren’s work has been published inAzure,Architectural Digest,Dezeen, andDwell. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Architecture at Princeton University and is a proud alumnae of Barnard College.
Jesse Dorrisis a writer in New York City and hostsPolyglot, a radio show on WFMU.
Frank Edgerton Martinis a landscape historian, architectural writer, and design journalist. His writing on campus planning, suburban history, design, and landscape preservation has appeared in publications including:Architecture,Perspecta,Modulus,Fabric Architecture,Landscape Architecture, andDesign Quarterly.
Elizabeth Fazzareis a New York-based editor and journalist who covers architecture, design, culture, and travel for publications includingArchitectural Digest,Dwell, andInterior Design. She was previously the senior architecture and design editor atCultured magazine, and an editor atArchitectural Digest.
Lauren Gallowis a Seattle-based writer and editor covering art, architecture, and design with bylines inAN Interior,Dwell,Metropolis,Interior Design, andCereal, among other publications.
Alaina Griffinis a regular contributor toAN.
Edward Guntsis the former architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun. He writes forThe Architects Newspaper and other publications about architecture, art, real estate development and preservation issues.
Eva Hagbergis the author ofHow to Be Loved, a memoir, andWhen Eero Met His Match. She holds a PhD in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley.
Jonathan Hilburgis an electronics editor atReviewed who focuses on gaming. Previously, he wasThe Architect’s Newspaper‘s web editor. He lives in Manhattan and is keenly interested in the intersection of art, architecture, and context.
Brian Libbyis an architecture and arts journalist based in Portland and has written forThe New York Times,Metropolis, andDwell.
Catherine Lieis a designer, researcher, and critic. Interested in the notion of commoning, she collaborates with human, non-human, and more-than-human others to explore alternative histories.
Adrian Madleneris a Brussels-born, New York-based design writer with over a decade of experience. He received a BFA from Design Academy Eindhoven and an MA from The Cooper Hewitt/Parsons History of Design and Curatorial Studies program. Madlener contributes to publications includingArchitectural Digest,Dezeen,Dwell,Hypebeast, andWallpaper. He’s also written monographs and curated exhibitions on tool theory, contemporary glass, and copyright infringement.
James McCownis a Boston-based architectural journalist who writes for numerous publications includingThe Boston Globe,Metropolis,The Architect’s Newspaper andArchitectural Digest AD PRO. He has written several books including the upcomingThe Home Office: Pavilions, Shacks and Extensions for Maximum Inspiration and Productivity, to be published by Rizzoli New York in late 2023. McCown studied journalism at Loyola University New Orleans and holds an ALM in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University, where his thesis on modern Brazilian architecture received an Honorable Mention, Dean’s Award, Best ALM Thesis (2007).
Bill Millardhas contributed toThe Architect's Newspaper,Oculus,Architectural Record,Architect,Icon,Metals in Construction,Annals of Emergency Medicine, OMA'sContent, Princeton’sPidgin, and other publications. Along with his magazine pieces, he is working on a book,The Vertical and Horizontal Americas, aided by a research grant from the Graham Foundation. He lives in New York’s East Village.
Zach Morticeis a Chicago-based design journalist and critic focused on architecture and landscape architecture’s relationship to public policy.
Anthony Palettais a writer living in Brooklyn. His work has been published frequently inThe Wall Street Journal,Metropolis,Citylab,Architectural Record,The Guardian,The Financial Times, and others.
Ellen Peirsonis a London-based writer, editor, and designer. She works in practice at Mike Tuck Studio and has written forArchitect’s Journal,New York Review of Architecture,The Architect’s Newspaper,Untapped,The Journal of Heritage Tourism, andThe Architectural Review, where she was formerly part of its editorial team. Ellen has written widely about seaside regeneration in the U.K., and more broadly, she is interested in the way architecture tells stories about who we are and the world we live in.
Anjulie Raois a Chicago-based journalist and critic covering the built environment. She is the founder and editor ofWeathered, a publication focused on cities and landscapes in the wintertime. Anjulie is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a columnist atARCHITECT magazine. Her bylines can be found inUntapped Journal,Landscape Architecture Magazine,The Architectural Review, andThe New York Review of Architecture, among others.
Shane Reiner-Rothis a lecturer at the University of Southern California (USC) and a PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In addition to writing for publications includingArchitectural Digest,Architectural Record,KCET, andThresholds Journal. Reiner-Roth runs the Instagram page @everyverything, a curation of images that highlight the novelties of the mundane and the blunders of luxury.
Davis Richardsonis a licensed architect in Texas and holds an M.Arch from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an architect at REX in New York City and has served as faculty at NJIT and the Architectural Association. In addition toThe Architect's Newspaper, his work and writing have been featured in the A+D Museum,Texas Architect,Paprika!,PLAT,ISSUE, and SXSW.
Ryan ScavnickyRyan Scavnicky (Scav) is a storyteller using memes, TikToks, group chats, Twitch broadcasts, Discord servers, print media, and the Extra Office YouTube Channel to create insightful commentary by challenging the status quo of disciplinary boundaries. Scav is an assistant professor at Marywood University School of Architecture, where he launched and now coordinates the groundbreaking Bachelor of Virtual Architecture program.
Timothy A. Schuleris an award-winning writer and design critic whose work focuses on the intersection of the built and natural environments. A contributing writer atPlaces Journal; and an editor atLandscape Architecture Magazine, his writing also regularly appears inMetropolis,Bloomberg CityLab,The Architect’s Newspaper, andFLUX, among other outlets. He lives in Manhattan, Kansas.
Luke Studebakeris a writer and an architect living in Los Angeles.
Jessie Templeis a writer and architect in Austin, Texas, exploring plant-based building materials at Cross Cabin Build + Supply.
Ian Volnerhas contributed articles on design and urbanism toThe New Yorker,The Wall Street Journal, andThe Atlantic, among other publications, and is a contributing editor atArchitect andArchitecture Today (U.K.); he is the author or coauthor of numerous books and monographs, most recentlyJorge Pardo: Public Projects and Commissions 1996–2018 (Petzel, 2021).
Kate Wagneris a critic and journalist based in Chicago and Ljubljana. First known for her satirical blogMcMansion Hell, Wagner has served as a columnist in the fields of architecture and culture at a number of publications includingThe Baffler,Curbed, andThe New Republic. Her speaking credits include podcasts and lectures at universities around the country, TEDxMidAtlantic and the 2020 Brendan Gill Memorial Lecture at Yale. When she is not writing about the built environment, she writes about Slovenian cycling and learns Slovenian. Recently, Ms. Wagner also made her debut as a poet inLiteratura andVersopolis.
Mimi Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based critic and curator. She was co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and 2020-2021 Exhibit Columbus. She has written for theNew York Times, theLos Angeles Times,Architectural Review, andMetropolis, and the former West Coast Editor forThe Architects Newspaper. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing about landscape architecture and serves as book editor atLandscape Architecture Magazine.
