Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social Urban & architectural historian at Swarthmore. Coming Sept. 2026: Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect. Wrote: The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem. Architecture & race, baseball, jazz. DC resident.
Olga Touloumi @touloumi.bsky.social architecture | media | spatial politics | feminism
education worker by day, writer by night, and feminist 24/7
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior (UMN, 2024) https://tinyurl.com/ycxbedpm
F A A C https://faacweb.wordpress.com/
Peter L'Official @elapostrophe.bsky.social director of american & indigenous studies program @ bard college | author, *urban legends: the south bronx in representation & ruin* | sometimes editor @ european review of books
Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social Nearsighted Optimist.
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social I am writing a book that explains why Washington DC is the way it is: leafy, monumental, and segregated. I am also a licensed architect.
https://www.thebirthofacapital.info
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social PhD candidate, modern German architecture | religion, preservation, environment | he/him views mine | New Orleans (for now)
With jazz and conversation
From the foot of Mount Belzoni
Stephen Vider @sjvider.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, author of The Queerness of Home, co-curator Fantasizing Design; stephenvider.com
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Bess W @besswww.bsky.social Design historian, author of Accessible Design: A History of Disability + Design
North Carolina based but will travel for meager honorarium
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Akira Drake Rodriguez @akirarodriguez.bsky.social Interested in race, cities, politics. Diverging Space for Deviants (UGA Press 2021): http://tinyurl.com/Divergingspace Working on a new book project. 
dubravka @dubravka.bsky.social architect and educator, programme lead of MA City Design at Royal College of Art, London
minorplanning, spatial literacy, and spatial social contract
some poetry and a lot of music
Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social Historian of architecture, urbanism, modernity / MIT / Author of Ugliness & Judgment / research: architecture & law, building sites, ugliness, Antarctica
Justin Fowler @jmfowl.bsky.social architecture and such
Director, Portland Architecture Program, University of Oregon
Kazys Varnelis @kazys.bsky.social An exile. Samogitian. High modernist. Artist, writer about network culture, formerly architecture faculty.
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social Architecture and history / Biography of Ada Louise Huxtable forthcoming (Norton, Mar. '27) / Coauthor, CAPE COD MODERN (Metropolis)
Ana María León @anamarialeon.bsky.social historian, teacher, architect. tuiteo en inglés y español. opinions are my own. she/ella. for work-related stuff please use email.
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler @jkbuhler.bsky.social Design Historian and author of Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Ashley Gardini @ashleygardini.bsky.social Architectural historian teaching at community colleges.
Fernando Lara @fernandolara.bsky.social Brazilian-American Author of Spatial Theories for the Americas, Activist, Architect, Husband, Father, Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (JHUP 2013). Now working on a book (with Ann Pfau and Stacy Sewell) on urban renewal on the Upper West Side. For a history and records inventory of urban renewal around NYS: https://nyheritage.org/exhibits/urban-renewal
Bryan E Norwood @bryannorwood.bsky.social Architectural historian. US and Atlantic World in the long nineteenth century
Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social Architect, historian, writer, mother, traveller between worlds. Currently reading, writing, researching and mentoring @khiflorenz.bsky.social and @kit.edu.
Hannah Kellsey le Roux @hannahkleroux.bsky.social Architect, PhD in lived modernism, angry about extractivism.
Located between the University of Sheffield and greater Johannesburg. 
Mariana Mogilevich @mmogi.bsky.social 
@deanemadsen.bsky.social @deanemadsen.bsky.social 
Lisa Haber-Thomson @lisaaht.bsky.social Architectural historian / Mount Holyoke college
Jeremy Lee Wolin @jeremyleewolin.bsky.social Ph.D. candidate @ princeton, researching post-civil rights movement urban development reform, architecture of the welfare state, public infrastructure, Asian American urbanism
Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social I write about media, race, rights, Chicago, built environment, other stuff. History prof at UCL. Author of 5 books of varying quality. I like fixed gear bikes and being outside.
Stephanie Frank @franklyurban.bsky.social Former planning professor, current preservation planner and film fanatic living in historic Greenbelt, MD.
Wanda Katja Liebermann @wandakatja.bsky.social Researcher/writer/architect/associate professor at University of Oklahoma. Tough state for a girl from Berkeley. My book: Architecture’s Disability Problem (Routledge, 2024). Ardent cat lover! Oil paint is magic.
Chris Grimley @heroicproject.bsky.social Graphic designer, experiential objects, former and recovering architect. Lover of ugly monsters. Runner.
@microkubo.bsky.social @microkubo.bsky.social 
Shine Trabucco, PhD @hangryhistorian.bsky.social Professor in Chicago | Digital Humanities | Public History | Borderlands
Save the Adobes
Kathleen Conti @kathleenconti.bsky.social Public historian, preservationist, professor. Writing on race and representation at US historic sites.
Rafael Jackson @rafajack.bsky.social Art and Architectural History Professor at UPR-RP, and earlier at UPR-RUM and UAM • Research in modernist/contemporary visual culture and architecture • Personal account
Deborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social Architectural historian based in Cambridge (UK). Interested in early modern history, especially Venice, the Veneto, eastern Mediterranean. Gardens, landscape, cultural geography. Venetian painting. 
Max Chavez @maxchavez.bsky.social 📍Chicago
Preservationist and architectural historian 🏳️🌈
ART DECO WORLD available for pre-order: https://linktr.ee/maxechavez
Elizabeth Greenspan @lizgreenspan.bsky.social writer | in process: cultural history of cities & '70s, Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi (W.W. Norton; Pushkin Press) | board member @ Blue Stoop | Philadelphia https://elizabethgreenspan.com/
Will Davis @wd4vis.bsky.social Architectural historian. Plantation landscapes, soft materials, palm and bamboo, folklore, warfare. SNSF Ambizione Group Leader at USI.
www.wd4vis.com
Chloe Taft Kang @chloetaftkang.bsky.social Urban studies lover. Author of From Steel to Slots (2016). Now at Northwestern U. Foundation Relations.
Sben Korsh @sbenkorsh.bsky.social Researching neoliberal patronage of architectural history & theory. Broadly interested in revitalizing sociological thought in architecture. University of Michigan PhD candidate, associated w/ Center for Inequality Dynamics @ Institute for Social Research
Aggregate @aggarchcollab.bsky.social The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative is a group dedicated to workshopping, discussing and publishing new research in architectural history and theory. Our website and open-access publications are available at https://we-aggregate.org
M. TenHoor @mtenhoor.bsky.social Professor of architectural/urban/landscape history at Pratt. Co-editor of http://we-aggregate.org. Histories + futures of food systems, toxics, care, repair in Francophone world and the US. Opinions my own.
More at http://mtenhoor.net. 
Antonio Pacheco @pantonio.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate at MIT Architecture, researching spatial practices of US government entities; New Deal, Art Deco, Water, and Sewage | he / him
https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/03/art-deco-ourselves
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social Architecture and landscape history, Historic preservation, museums, and cultural heritage. Biallas Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Transplant from Texas and New Orleans. Working on Telephone City 📞
Tegan Baiocchi @tegannouveau.bsky.social Architectural historian, genealogist, cemetery picnicker
Mom of two + a corgi and a culvert cat
Fort Wayne resident, Michigander at heart
Can't wait for hockey season
Benjamin Flowers @benjy-flowers.bsky.social Professor of Architecture, Knowlton School, The Ohio State University. Research and write about stadiums, sport architecture, and skyscrapers. Fmr. Exec. Board member IAKS. Arsenal supporter/sufferer. Opinions mine.
W.R. Judd @wrjudd.bsky.social AZ native and Architecture Hugger. I WILL NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE and the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Enrique Ramirez @enriqueramirez.bsky.social Director @manifestinstitute
Historian of Things
Occasional Musician
Visiting Associate Professor, Pratt SoA
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia GSAPP
Lecturer in Environmental History, CASE/RPI
Steven Rich @datab.ae just your average deaf narcoleptic man
data for @nytimes.com
wood for databae woodshop
stan for philadelphia
email: steven.rich@nytimes.com
signal: @databae.01
Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social drifter/writer on architecture, culture and Chicago, photographer specializing in out-of-focus images. there will be posts on opera, apologies in advance.
Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social Yukon-based author, writer, editor
Western Canada Editor, Canadian Geographic
Contributing editor, High Country News
My books are NERVE and NO SLEEP 'TIL FAIRBANKS
Romance reader, slow but enthusiastic cyclist, wife guy
Dave Askins @chronnicallydave.bsky.social independent journalist in Bloomington, Indiana publishing news reports on local government at bsquarebulletin.com
Andrew Nadeau @theandrewnadeau.bsky.social Comedian, Writer, Producer of Spitfire Comedy, Founder of PersonaEssential.com
Ben Miller @benmillerbenmiller.bsky.social PhD student in US History @ Northwestern | Race, Liberalism, Housing, Immigration | Go Nats | he/him
Siskel and Ebert Bot @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.social Unofficial Bot, Posting Every 11 Hours.
gabriel x. michael @g-x-m.bsky.social Witness to subterranean Chicago. King of Lake Street. Guardian of the city’s oldest buildings. Telling a story of the unappreciated, unseen, unknown.
MCMLXXXIV. All rights reserved.
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social The A.V. Club film critic, programmer, dancer, dog person.
Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social Chicago blueystorian, UIC ABD
jeffnicholshistory.com
jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social what if we could have the things we liked, minus the things we didn't like
Who Makes Cents? @whomakescents.bsky.social A monthly podcast about the history of capitalism. Hosted by @jessicaannlevy.bsky.social and @dygottlieb.bsky.social
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com data reporter👩🏻💻
neuroscience/genomics PhD 🧠
caitlin.gilbert@washpost.com ✉️
caitlingilbert.24 on signal
@caitlingilbertdata on tiktok/ig
🎭⚽️🎮 + other thoughts
washingtonpost.com/people/caitlin-gilbert
wrongnumber.beehiiv.com
David Rotenstein, Curator, Shrouded in Secrecy Archives @davidrotenstein.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Folklorist. | History is my hustle. Opinions here are my own.
Elizabeth Todd-Breland @etoddbreland.bsky.social Educator, Historian (US, Urban, Black Politics, Education, Policy, Chicago), Former CPS Board VP; Books: I Didn't Come Here to Lie (Haymarket, 2025); A Political Education (UNC Press, 2018); personal account; she/her
Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social Director RISE OF THE GUARDIANS, SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDERVERSE, LOST OLLIE, STAR WARS stuff…
every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social Every USPS every half hour, by @fishmanpet.bajurny.us, based on work by @fitnr.bsky.social, not affiliated with the USPS
Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social ✨ Director & one-man studio
🪄 Handmade stop-motion & VFX illusions
🔗 https://kevinparry.tv/learn
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social Prof African History MSU
White Gold: https://tinyurl.com/ymt64kfz
Dreams for Lesotho: http://undpress.nd.edu/9780
Publications here: https://tinyurl.com/ynvwp6c5
MSU FS Chair 2026-27
Lesotho, development, borders, running, Michigan
Views my own
@chigeek.bsky.social @chigeek.bsky.social Architecture geek
https://chicagolandarchitecture.substack.com/
Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social Journalist • JSAAHC Director of Digital Humanities • Raised/Razed co-Director & Writer • Plot of Land Executive Producer • Mapping Cville-Albemarle Founder
Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social I write a newsletter about sports! It's called Sports! Link in pinned post
Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social Philadelphia-based 91st Most Powerful Lawyer in PA (City and State PA, 2023) specializing in political law. Former pop culture blogger. Incredibly amateur birder. Author of third-place Very Best Wrong Answer LL108. Opinions are mine alone.
John U. Bacon @johnubacon.bsky.social Author of THE GALES OF NOVEMBER: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, available Oct. 7. Can pre-order here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324094647
Lake Superior @lakesuperior.bsky.social I am the greatest lake of all time. G.L.O.A.T. (she/her) #BigBeautifulWater 
Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social Chicagoan. Research interests in race, environmental justice, and transportation issues in Latine communities.
Chicago Covenants Project @chicagocovenants.bsky.social Identifying and interpreting racially restrictive covenants in Cook County through civic engagement and collaboration.
CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.bsky.social dissin' your fly girl
yoinkin' your memes
(not the guy from twitter)
Chi Hack Night @chihacknight.org A free, weekly event in Chicago to build, share and learn about civic tech. Join us every Tuesday evening! https://chihacknight.org/
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social historian, author, and tour guide. I talk about Bob Dylan, Chicago stuff, old time true crime, and cemetery stories. There's a canon Star Wars character named after me. He/him. Linktr.ee/adamchicago
Cheryl W. Thompson @cherylwt.bsky.social Investigative correspondent = license to snoop @NPR; WaPo alum; GWU prof; Past prez @IRE_NICAR; Pulitzer juror ‘22 and ‘23; Chicago bred; 2x UIUC grad; Sorority girl💕💚.
www.npr.org/people/705265133/cheryl-w-thompson
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Éric Grenier @ericgrenier.bsky.social I cover elections at The Writ (http://thewrit.ca), The Numbers (http://thenumberspod.ca) and Les chiffres (http://leschiffres.ca) Follow me on YouTube: http://youtube.com/@TheWrit
Fallon Samuels Aidoo @fallonphd.bsky.social Community Engaged Scholar & Planner of Heritage Adaptation to Climate Change & Development Hazards @ Tulane Architecture | consulting on heritage adaptation to climate change via studioRxP👉🏾 fallon-samuels-aidoo.com
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
Data Bear 🏳️🌈 @dataandpolitics.net Data and Politics.
Engineer, then academic, now engineer again.
Daytime is AI/ML research.
I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator.
Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart.
A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️🌈
James Longhurst @jameslonghurst.bsky.social college professor in the U.S. Midwest (all views mine); author of "Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road" / "Las Batallas de la Bici." Shop intern, historian of urban and environmental policy, gravel grinder.
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social Cville local. Overeducated carpenter. Fascists eat shit, liberation for the rest. The future's looking rough, but hope is our duty.
Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social Sociologist @Cornell. Currently interested in the history of inequality statistics, and the role of economic expertise in climate policy. “Venceréis, pero no convenceréis.”