Contributors

In addition to its editorial staff, The Architect’s Newspaper works with writers from across the country and around the world to report the latest news and assess the most recent completed projects. Our contributors bring readers detailed and considered coverage of the latest architecture news and reviews.

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Fred Bernstein studied 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 Bratishenko is a writer and recovering curator in Montreal. His writing on architecture and classical music has appeared in The Architectural Review, Cabinet, CBC Music, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Icon, Maclean’s, The Montreal Gazette, Opera Canada, Opera News, and Uncube 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 Budds is 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, and Wallpaper, among other publications.
Rita Catinella Orrell is a freelance design journalist based in New Jersey. She is a former products editor for Architectural Record and currently contributes to publications including Oculus, Texas Architect, AN Interior, and The Architect’s Newspaper. She is the author of Objects of Desire: A Showcase of Modern Erotic Objects and the Creative Minds Behind Them and blogs about design at designythings.com and architectstoybox.com.
Marianela D'Aprile is a writer in Brooklyn. She is the deputy editor of New York Review of Architecture. Her work has been published widely, including in The Nation, Jacobin, and Metropolis.
Keren Dillard is 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 in Azure, Architectural Digest, Dezeen, and Dwell. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Architecture at Princeton University and is a proud alumnae of Barnard College.
Jesse Dorris is a writer in New York City and hosts Polyglot, a radio show on WFMU.
Frank Edgerton Martin is 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, and Design Quarterly.
Elizabeth Fazzare is a New York-based editor and journalist who covers architecture, design, culture, and travel for publications including Architectural Digest, Dwell, and Interior Design. She was previously the senior architecture and design editor at Cultured magazine, and an editor at Architectural Digest.
Lauren Gallow is a Seattle-based writer and editor covering art, architecture, and design with bylines in AN Interior, Dwell, Metropolis, Interior Design, and Cereal, among other publications.
Alaina Griffin is a regular contributor to AN.
Edward Gunts is the former architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun. He writes for The Architects Newspaper and other publications about architecture, art, real estate development and preservation issues.
Eva Hagberg is the author of How to Be Loved, a memoir, and When Eero Met His Match. She holds a PhD in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley.
Jonathan Hilburg is an electronics editor at Reviewed who focuses on gaming. Previously, he was The Architect’s Newspaper‘s web editor. He lives in Manhattan and is keenly interested in the intersection of art, architecture, and context.
Brian Libby is an architecture and arts journalist based in Portland and has written for The New York Times, Metropolis, and Dwell.
Catherine Lie is 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 Madlener is 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 including Architectural Digest, Dezeen, Dwell, Hypebeast, and Wallpaper. He’s also written monographs and curated exhibitions on tool theory, contemporary glass, and copyright infringement.
James McCown is a Boston-based architectural journalist who writes for numerous publications including The Boston Globe, Metropolis, The Architect’s Newspaper and Architectural Digest AD PRO. He has written several books including the upcoming The 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 Millard has contributed to The Architect's Newspaper, Oculus, Architectural Record, Architect, Icon, Metals in Construction, Annals of Emergency Medicine, OMA's Content, Princeton’s Pidgin, 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 Mortice is a Chicago-based design journalist and critic focused on architecture and landscape architecture’s relationship to public policy.
Anthony Paletta is a writer living in Brooklyn. His work has been published frequently in The Wall Street Journal, Metropolis, Citylab, Architectural Record, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and others.
Ellen Peirson is a London-based writer, editor, and designer. She works in practice at Mike Tuck Studio and has written for Architect’s Journal, New York Review of Architecture, The Architect’s Newspaper, Untapped, The Journal of Heritage Tourism, and The 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 Rao is a Chicago-based journalist and critic covering the built environment. She is the founder and editor of Weathered, 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 at ARCHITECT magazine. Her bylines can be found in Untapped Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, The Architectural Review, and The New York Review of Architecture, among others.
Shane Reiner-Roth is 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 including Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, KCET, and Thresholds 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 Richardson is 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 to The Architect's Newspaper, his work and writing have been featured in the A+D Museum, Texas Architect, Paprika!, PLAT, ISSUE, and SXSW.
Ryan Scavnicky is the founder of Extra Office, a design practice which engages developments in contemporary media to uncover new channels for architectural content. He currently teaches architecture design, theory, and criticism at Kent State University.
Timothy A. Schuler is an award-winning writer and design critic whose work focuses on the intersection of the built and natural environments. A contributing writer at Places Journal; and an editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine, his writing also regularly appears in Metropolis, Bloomberg CityLab, The Architect’s Newspaper, and FLUX, among other outlets. He lives in Manhattan, Kansas.
Luke Studebaker is a writer and an architect living in Los Angeles.
Jessie Temple is a writer and architect in Austin, Texas, exploring plant-based building materials at Cross Cabin Build + Supply.
Ian Volner has contributed articles on design and urbanism to The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among other publications, and is a contributing editor at Architect and Architecture Today (U.K.); he is the author or coauthor of numerous books and monographs, most recently Jorge Pardo: Public Projects and Commissions 1996–2018 (Petzel, 2021).
Kate Wagner is a critic and journalist based in Chicago and Ljubljana. First known for her satirical blog McMansion Hell, Wagner has served as a columnist in the fields of architecture and culture at a number of publications including The Baffler, Curbed, and The 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 in Literatura and Versopolis.
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 the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Review, and Metropolis, and the former West Coast Editor for The Architects Newspaper. Zeiger is the 2015 recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal for excellence in writing about landscape architecture and serves as book editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine.