Glenn Adamson is a curator and writer who works at the intersection of craft, design history, and contemporary art. He has previously been the director of the Museum of Arts and Design, head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and curator at Milwaukee’s Chipstone Foundation.

Clayton Page Aldern is a neuroscientist turned journalist and data scientist based in Seattle. His essays and data journalism have been published by The Atlantic, The Economist, Scientific American, Grist, and many other outlets. A Rhodes scholar and a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow, he holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. With Gregg Colburn, he is the author of Homelessness is a Housing Problem (University of California Press). His book The Weight of Nature, on the effects of climate change and environmental degradation on brain health, is forthcoming.

Fred A. Bernstein studied architecture at Princeton University and law at New York University, and writes about both subjects. His focus since 2019 has been the embodied energy of buildings. He is the winner of the 2009 Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award, given by the New York Chapter of the AIA for excellence in architecture writing, and a 2023 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which recognized him as “a voice of clarity … and integrity.”

Alex Bozikovic has been the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail since 2013. His latest book, 305 Lost Buildings of Canada (2002), was written with Raymond Biesinger and was a national bestseller.

Diana Budds is a writer and editor based in New York. Her stories on design, architecture, and the built environment have appeared in Curbed, Dwell, Eye on Design, Fast Company, Kinfolk, and Wallpaper, among other publications.

Siobhan Burke is a dance critic and journalist living in Brooklyn. A regular contributor to The New York Times, she has written for Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, Dance Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Open Space, The Village Voice, and other publications. She was a 2013 USC/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow and received a 2018 Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She teaches at Barnard College.

Mark Byrnes writes about the built environment, with a focus on postwar architecture and the enduring impact of 20th century urban renewal in today’s cities. He was formerly an editor at CityLab and the architecture firm SOM. He is based in Chicago.

Kriston Capps is a reporter and critic based in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer and editor for Bloomberg CityLab, where he reports on housing, edits design stories, and writes a weekly newsletter on architecture. He is also a contributor to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Artforum, and other publications. He is a winner of the Sarah Booth Conroy Prize for Journalism and Architectural Criticism, the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

Sebastián López Cardozo is an architectural designer and writer based in Toronto. He is a founding editor of Architecture Writing Workshop and a co-editor of Nueva Vivienda: New Housing Paradigms in Mexico (Park Books).

Deb Chachra, Ph.D. is a professor of engineering at Olin College of Engineering, where she was among the earliest faculty, and the author of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (2023). She writes, thinks, builds, and speaks widely on themes of technology and society, with research interests including design education and materials science. Her work and ideas have been recognized and supported by a range of sources, such as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Autodesk, and the National Science Foundation. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Phillip Cox is a writer based in New York City. He is the author of two forthcoming books: What A Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen (Indiana University Press), a collaboration with the photographer Niall Cronin; and Speak Data: Artists, Scientists, Thinkers and Dreamers On How We Live Our Lives in Numbers (Princeton Architectural Press), with the designer Giorgia Lupi. He was previously a strategist at the design studio Pentagram.

Jesse Dorris is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. His work appears in publications including The New Yorker, Aperture, Architectural Digest, Elle, Pitchfork, and Surface. He also hosts Polyglot, a weekly W.F.M.U. radio show of new experimental and electronic music.

Marianela D’Aprile is a writer and the deputy editor of the New York Review of Architecture. Her work on architecture, art, literature, and politics has appeared in The Nation, Jacobin, and The Architectural Review, among others.

FOR SCALE is a “best-selling” Substack on “the supreme potential of domestic space,” and is listed as one of Substack’s Top 25 design newsletters. Founded in November 2022, it is published every Monday.

Jarrett Fuller is a designer, writer, editor, and educator. He is an assistant professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University and host of the podcast Scratching the Surface.

Christopher Garcia Valle is an editorial photographer and videographer based in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, GQ, Paper, Curbed, Gray, Surface, and Watch Journal, among others.

Jonathan Griffin is a critic and writer based in Los Angeles. He is a regular contributor to Frieze, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and Art Review, among others. He has contributed to monographs and exhibition catalogs on artists including William N. Copley, Andy Warhol, Derek Boshier, Armin Boehm, Liam Everett, Hernan Bas, Ragen Moss, and Alice Tippitt.

Eva Hagberg is a Brooklyn-based author, educator, and formerly secret publicist. She has written widely on architecture and design for publications including The New York Times, Wallpaper, and the New York Review of Architecture, and teaches at Columbia GSAPP and Bard College.

Owen Hatherley writes regularly about aesthetics and politics for The Architectural Review, the London Review of Books, and the New Left Review blog Sidecar. He is the author of many books, most recently Modern Buildings in Britain, Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions, Transitional Objects: Photographs of Poland, and Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects. He is a commissioning editor at Jacobin.

Based in London, Edwin Heathcote is the architecture critic of the Financial Times. He is an architect, designer, and the author of a number of books including, most recently, On the Street: In-Between Architecture (Heni Publishing). He is also the keeper of meaning at the Cosmic House, Charles Jencks’s postmodernist former home in London, and the founder of readingdesign.org, a nonprofit online resource for critical writing on design.

Karrie Jacobs writes regularly about design, technology, buildings, and cities with an emphasis, in recent years, on the intersections between the natural and manmade worlds. She’s also a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts’s graduate program in Design Research, Writing, and Criticism and was the founding editor-in-chief of Dwell, the founding executive editor of Benetton’s Colors, and has been a contributor to numerous other publications. She divides her time between Brooklyn and the western Catskills.

Marianna Janowicz is an architect and writer based in London. She is a member of the feminist design collective Edit and the design researcher in residence at the city’s Design Museum. Her writing has been published in The Architectural Review, Architects’ Journal, Icon, the New York Review of Architecture, and E-flux.

Since 2022 Tiffany Jow has served as editor-in-chief of Untapped, which she conceptualized and launched in February 2023. Prior to that, she was marketing director for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, where she contributed to its winning proposal for Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center. She wrote for Surface magazine for more than a decade, holding staff positions as design editor and features director, and has contributed to exhibitions at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

George Kafka is a writer, editor, and curator based in London. He is currently Future Observatory Curator at the Design Museum. As a writer he has contributed to publications including the BBC, Architectural Review, Frieze, Disegno, and others.

Svetlana Kitto is a writer, editor, and oral historian. Her writing has appeared in 4Columns, Guernica, BOMB, Ursula, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Cut, Vice, and elsewhere. Her 2021 book of interviews, Sara Penn’s Knobkerry: An Oral History Sourcebook (CARA, 2021), formed the basis of the exhibition “Niloufar Emamifar, SoiL Thornton, and an Oral History of Knobkerry,” shown at New York’s SculptureCenter.

Marianne Krogh is an art historian with a Ph.D. from the Academy of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. She has worked within the field of art and architecture in various countries, teaching at architecture schools, editing books, and curating exhibitions, including “Connectedness,” shown at the Danish pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. She is currently based in Copenhagen, where she conducts a program on architecture & transformation within an initiative called Agenda Earth, which is supported by both private and public architecture funds.

Alexandra Lange is a design critic and author, most recently, of Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury USA). Her essays, reviews, and features have appeared in New York magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, among many other publications. She is the former architecture critic for Curbed and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Citylab.

Julie Lasky is a journalist, editor, and critic best known for her writings on design. She has been the deputy editor of The New York Times’s weekly Home section, the editor-in-chief of I.D. and Interiors magazines, and the managing editor of Print magazine. She contributes to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Travel + Leisure, and other publications. She teaches in the graduate industrial design program at Parsons School of Design.

Sophie Lovell runs studio_lovell and co-founded The Common Table, a platform for food thinking and systemic change, with her daughter Orlando. Born in London and based in Berlin, she has been an editor for numerous publications such as Form, uncube, and Wallpaper. She has also written and edited several books, including David Thulstrup: A Sense of Place and Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible. She is currently the End Times correspondent for FOR SCALE.

Adrian Madlener is a Brussels-born, New York–based writer, curator, and consultant. He has held editorial positions at The Architect’s Newspaper, TLmag, and Frame, and has contributed to publications including AD Pro, Cultured, Disegno, Domus, Dwell, Metropolis, and The Design Edit, among others. He also develops copy and exhibitions for various industry clients.

Born in Lander, Wyoming in 1956, Roy McMakin’s work seeks to bridge the space between art and design. He is represented by Garth Greenan Gallery.

Zach Moldof is a father, skateboarder, and skateboard advocate. He is the executive director of the Florida skateboard education nonprofit Skate Bud, through which he leads programming and advocacy for public skate parks.

Zach Mortice is a Chicago-based design journalist and critic, who focuses on the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture, and public policy. He is a contributing writer at Bloomberg CityLab, and is the editor of the anthology Midwest Architecture Journeys. Dwight Perkins is his favorite Chicago architect.

Mzwakhe Ndlovu is a Johannesburg-born, New York–based designer. Through his practice, SUBJECT BUREAUX, he explores the relationships between people, places, and products through various studies and expressions, the outcomes of which are not always intended to be a physical object or space. He previously worked in Snøhetta’s New York office.

Folasade Ologundudu is a Brooklyn-born writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work explores social issues of identity, race, and youth culture as it pertains to art, fashion, and media. She is the founder of Light Work, a creative platform rooted at the intersection of art, education, and culture.

Pete Oyler is a designer whose work explores the intersections of design, craft, contemporary culture, and history. His studio practice emphasizes both traditional and experimental approaches to a wide range of materials and methods of production. Oyler is an associate professor in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he leads advanced studio courses that explore the contemporary landscape of design, exhibition, and independent design practice.

Kathryn O’Rourke is an architectural historian and professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She has written widely on the histories of architecture, landscape, and urbanism, and is the author of Modern Architecture in Mexico City: History, Representation, and the Shaping of a Capital and Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture (University of Texas Press), out next year. Her current book project, Archaism and Liberalism in Modern Architecture, examines the dynamics of form, estrangement, and liberalism in 20th-century architecture.

Anthony Paletta is a writer living in Brooklyn. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Metropolis, The Architects’ Newspaper, Architectural Record, and a variety of other publications.

Sam Pease is a multimedia artist, film photographer, and musician living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work explores liminal space and states of being, and has been exhibited in galleries internationally, in print, and online.

Ellen Peirson is a London-based writer, editor, and designer. She works in architectural practice at Mike Tuck Studio and has written for Architect’s Journal, New York Review of Architecture, The Architect’s Newspaper, and The Architectural Review, where she was formerly part of its editorial team.

Francesca Perry is a London-based editor and journalist specializing in design, architecture, and urbanism. She has written for the Financial Times, The Economist, Wired, the BBC, and CNN. She is the former editor-in-chief of the design magazine Icon, deputy editor of Blueprint, and commissioning editor of The Guardian‘s Cities section. Francesca is also the editor of the book Welfare Architecture for All (Arvinius + Orfeus).

Philip Poon is an architect, artist, and writer whose work engages the complex dynamics of a changing Manhattan Chinatown and the relationship of Asian-American identity within it. Informed by his background as a Chinese American from New York City, his work as a registered architect, and his engagement with art and activist movements in Chinatown, his projects materialize issues at the intersection of space, race, and class.

Anne Quito is a design critic whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, CNN, Metropolis, Fast Company, and Architectural Digest, among other publications. She wrote Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines (Columbia University Press) and is among the hosts of the podcast Print is Dead, Long Live Print!. She is the first recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary.

Natalia Rachlin is a freelance journalist who writes about art, design, and interiors for publications including The New York Times, T Magazine, WSJ Magazine, Wallpaper, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Ark Journal, among others. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Mother Tongue, a biannual print magazine that interrogates modern motherhood through a cultural lens. She lives in Houston.

Anjulie Rao is a journalist and critic covering the built environment. Based in Chicago, much of her work reckons with the complexities of post-industrial cities; explores connections to place and land; and exposes intersections between architecture, landscapes, and cultural change. She is the founder and editor of Weathered, a publication focused on cities and landscapes in the wintertime.

Debika Ray is an editor, writer, and consultant specializing in arts and culture, with a keen interest in the Global South, diasporic communities, and social justice. She is currently the editor of Crafts magazine and head of editorial at the Crafts Council in the United Kingdom.

Shane Reiner-Roth is a writer, lecturer, and curator based in Los Angeles. His writing on art and architecture can be found in publications including Architectural Digest, The Architect’s Newspaper, and the Los Angeles Times. He also runs @everyverything, an Instagram account that documents the absurdities of the modern built environment.

A lapsed investment banker, Cynthia Rosenfeld began her writing career as the Asia correspondent for Condé Nast Traveler, where she contributes to this day. Her insights, discoveries, and interviews appear in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Surface, where she serves as editor-at-large.

Andrew Russeth, an art critic based in Seoul, South Korea, has been executive editor of ARTnews and an editor at The New York Observer. In 2019, he was awarded the Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism. Russeth’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times, W, New York, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Artforum.

Brooklyn-based writer Jonathan Schultz has always been the car guy in his circle of friends—the one called when someone is cross-shopping models or needs to be dissuaded from buying a hot mess on eBay. He doesn’t own a car, preferring the charms of his single-speed and electric-cargo bicycles. Jonathan has written for numerous design, travel, and lifestyle publications, and has held editorial positions at The New York Times, the BBC, and Time Inc.

Gideon Fink Shapiro is a New York–based critic and historian. Interested in the public dimensions of design and development, he has contributed writing to Curbed, New York Review of Architecture, Next City, Places Journal, The Architect’s Newspaper, The Avery Review, and several books. He serves as marketing director for MBB Architects.

Howard Shindler is a figurative artist who works in abstract realism. He has studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, holds a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute, and has exhibited in New York and Brooklyn.

Jim Stephenson is an architectural photographer and filmmaker based in the United Kingdom and working internationally. He has documented the work of some of the world’s most exciting architects, specializing specifically on how people inhabit space over time.

Ian Volner has contributed articles on architecture, design, and urbanism to The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Artforum, and Harper’s, among other publications, and is a contributing editor for Architect and Architecture Today. He is the author of numerous books and monographs, most recently Jorge Pardo: Public Projects and Commissions 1996–2018 (Petzel Gallery), with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Emma Enderby. He lives in the Bronx.

Kate Wagner is an architecture critic and the creator of the satirical blog McMansion Hell. She has served as a columnist in architecture and culture at The Baffler, The New Republic, and Curbed. When she is not writing about buildings, Wagner is also sought-after as a sports journalist specializing in professional cycling. She spends her time between Chicago and Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Alissa Walker is a writer based in Los Angeles covering transportation, housing, urban design, public space, and environmental policy. She is the 2021 recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary for her writing on design and urbanism. She lives in L.A.’s Historic Filipinotown neighborhood, where she is the co-host of LA Podcast, an avid ice cream consumer, and a mom to the city’s two most enthusiastic public transit riders.

Xin Wang is an art historian and curator based in New York. Her scholarship and writing have appeared in e-flux, Artforum, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Flash Art, and Art in America, as well as in various exhibition catalogs. She has lectured at institutions such as Para/Site, Yale University, the School of Visual Arts, the Queens Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Städelschule, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Charlie Weak is a writer and architect living in New York. His experience growing up in Nebraska informs his writing on rural landscapes and in finding agency in everyday spaces. His writing has appeared in Disc Journal, the New York Review of Architecture, and The Architect’s Newspaper.

Michael Webb has authored 30 books on architecture and design, and is a regular contributor to journals in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Growing up in London, he was an editor at The Times and Country Life before moving to the U.S., where he directed film programs for the American Film Institute and curated a Smithsonian exhibition on the history of American cinema. He now lives in Los Angeles in the Richard Neutra apartment that was once home to Charles and Ray Eames.

Susan Yelavich is professor emerita, design studies, at the Parsons School of Design. A fellow of the American Academy of Rome and the Bogliasco Foundation, she is also a member of the Scientific Committee for Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Her contributions to design and its scholarship span four decades, including 25 years at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Her most recent books are Thinking Design Through Literature (Routledge) and Design as Future-Making (Bloomsbury).

Osman Can Yerebakan is a New York–based art and culture writer and curator. His writing has appeared in The Economist, Financial Times, New York, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Guardian, Artforum, and The Paris Review, among others. He has also written numerous catalog essays, including those published by Rizzoli.

LinYee Yuan is an educator, editor, and cultural organizer living on the unceded land of Brooklyn in Lenapehoking. She is the founder and editor of MOLD, a critically-acclaimed print and online magazine about designing the future of food, and an instigator of Field Meridians, an artist collective creating tools for ecological resilience through social practice. Her practice is rooted in conspiring with human and more-than-human neighbors to build relational architectures for liberation.

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 for the 2020–2021 Exhibit Columbus program. She has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Review, and Metropolis, among others.