London Centric @londoncentric.media A modern news outlet for London, covering the city in the old-fashioned way. Edited by @jim.londoncentric.media. Subscribe now for a 25% discount: www.londoncentric.media
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social my next book is about why it's so hard to build. send me your thoughts!
Ed Wall @eddwall.bsky.social Professor of Cities and Landscapes / Landscape Architect, author, and editor, including The Landscapists (Wiley/AD)
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Nicolas Kemper @ntok.bsky.social Publisher at New York Review of Architecture
Teacher at School of Visual Arts and Kean University
Writer all over the place
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
Tim Reeve @timreeve.bsky.social Leading the creation of V&A East; V&A Deputy Director & COO; Chair of East Bank
Fabrizio Gallanti @fagallanti.bsky.social
Niall Murphy @murphyniallgla.bsky.social If you are interested in architecture, urbanism and conservation issues in Glasgow, Scotland, then follow me. I’m Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Chair of Govanhill Baths BPT a Trustee of BEFS and Co-chair of the Glasgow Built Heritage Commission.
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social Writer and editor for @Bloomberg @CityLab. Texan. Chili purist.
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Paul Dobraszczyk @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social Magpie architectural writer and image maker. 'The Matter of Architecture: Geology, Buildings and Us' out soon with Reaktion Books. www.ragpickinghistory.co.uk
Anna Gibb @agibbdraws.bsky.social Architect.. “full of whimsy and wit”
Normally found with a pen in (left) hand, either in London or the mudflats of wildest Essex.
cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social Public servant by day, illustrator by night. Architecture, Modernism, and the 20th-century. • 📩 artofcysun@gmail.com • 📍 London/Essex
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
Richard Brown @richardbrown.bsky.social Cities, urban economics, housing, puns, poetry and pop music. Views are mine.
Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social Built Environment | Climate Change | Architecture | Biobased Construction | Green
Works at Built by Nature. Founding member of Architects Climate Action Network. But views here are my own.
Rory Grace Stott @stottr.bsky.social Person that cares about architecture and words. In Rotterdam. 🏳️⚧️ They/She
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
Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social Author of"The Story of Upfront Carbon," reformed architect and developer, teacher of sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University. https://lloydalter.substack.com
Toby Lloyd @tobylloyd.bsky.social Policy wonk, spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.
Matthew Lloyd Roberts @matthewlloydr.bsky.social writing about architecture
Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social love is the plan the plan is death
Mark Hogan @markasaurus.bsky.social Architect in San Francisco. Principal at OpenScope Studio (openscopestudio.bsky.social). Working in SF + LA. Housing, #Architecture, London, Buffalo and #gardens.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/markasaurus
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Markasaurus
Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
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
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social "Elegante y muy cabrona."
I labor at the word factory for Bloomberg Citylab, NYRB, The Atlantic, Alta, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others.
https://c-monster.org
https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Rory Hyde @roryhyde.bsky.social A/Prof in Architecture & Curatorial Practice, Uni of Melbourne
www.roryhyde.co
Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social Pasajere en tránsito perpetuo (tnx e:AM), co-founder of dpr-barcelona + researcher Architecture & Care ETH Zürich. They|them antifascist 🌈 "Love, music, wine and revolution." Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
dpr-barcelona.com
dpr-barcelona.bsky.social
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Peter S. @psmisek.bsky.social Lapsed architect, writer, publicist, 🏳️🌈
Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social Architectural historian with Historic England (opinions own). British architecture after 1945. Post-Modern Buildings in Britain, HKPA, John Outram. High-Tech Britain out March 2026!
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Fatema Ahmed @hekale.bsky.social Expurgated, accelerated, improved and reduced | mainly on the Northern Line
Charles Holland @charlesjholland.bsky.social Architect
Professor at UCA, Canterbury
Principal at Charles Holland Architects
Future Architects Front @architectsfront.bsky.social Organising to end exploitation in architecture.
Email: future.arch.front@gmail.com
New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social Reviews architecture, in New York.
nyra.nyc
Justin McGuirk @justinmcguirk.bsky.social Writer and curator. Director of Future Observatory, the national design research programme for the green transition, at the Design Museum. Author of Radical Cities and other books. Views my own.
https://futureobservatory.org
https://fojournal.org
Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social Formerly an architect, academic and software peep. Now advocating for media literacy and responsible GenAI in HE. Northerner: border collie & brass band lover. Trombone learner (still). Here to learn not argue. Thinking round corners.
Nick Axel @alucidwake.bsky.social Architecture editor, educator, curator, writer.
Deputy Editor of e-flux Architecture and Department Head of Architectural Design at Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
https://linktr.ee/nickaxel- H Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social Architecture critic. Proprietor, Punch List Architecture Newsletter (punchlistmag.com). Faculty Architecture and English @Yale. Prev. Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles; architecture critic, Los Angeles Times
Andrew Clancy @clancyandrew.bsky.social Architect & Educator ➕Director, Clancy Moore Architects➕Professor Kingston University ➕Professor Accademia Architettura Mendrisio ➕Board Member Arts Council Ireland.
Mark Pimlott @pimlottmark.bsky.social writer, designer, artist
b Montréal, lives/works Den Haag 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇳🇱
Without and within (2007)
In passing (2010)
The Public Interior as Idea and Project (2016)
A walk from here to an other (2024)
Means to a beginning (2026)
Photographs mine ©
markpimlott.com
Philip Oltermann @philipoltermann.bsky.social Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social Historian, geographer, part of #Railway200 team, presenter @UKTV’s #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt & #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground, Trainspotter, 🏳️🌈, and always an enthusiast. Own views, obv.
Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social Writer and editor on architecture. Bit of a thing for industrial archaeology and historic modernism. Book "About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings" published by Yale.
Dave @dlequeu.bsky.social Architecture and words | PhD on Fredric Jameson and architecture
Russell Curtis @russellcurtis.co.uk Director of RCKa, but everything here my own. Barnet, London & Europe. Chair of Barnet QRP & Mayor's Design Advocate. Spatial research, planning, pro-housing & Yimby. I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not in it.
https://russellcurtis.co.uk
Tom Copley @tomcopley.bsky.social Deputy Mayor of London for Housing • Hon FRIBA • Former London Assembly Member • Former Lewisham councillor • Geriatric Millennial
Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social Head of School at UNSW Built Environment and Professor of Architecture. Writer, researcher & teacher, tall buildings, climate change, embodied carbon, cities
The Cosmic House @thecosmichouse.bsky.social The Cosmic House, London
https://linktr.ee/thecosmichouse
Barnabas Calder @barnabascalder.bsky.social Historian of #architecture and #energy, at University of Liverpool School of Architecture. Author of Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency (Pelican, 2021), and Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (William Heinemann, 2016).
Hana Loftus @hanaloftus.bsky.social Planner, designer, co-director at HAT Projects, chair of Creative Colchester. Also food and fungi and music. www.hatprojects.com, some of my journalism at https://muckrack.com/hana-loftus/articles, more writing and podcasting scattered around the internet.
Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social Designer, urbanist &c. Director, Melbourne School of Design + Professor, University of Melbourne + Visiting Prof of Practice, UCL IIPP. Prev.: Vinnova (Swedish Gov), Arup, Future Cities Catapult, SITRA (Finnish Innovation Fund), BBC. FRSA.
Tom Holbrook @thomholbrook.bsky.social Director of @5th_Studio, architect, Professor @RMIT, generalist, sailor.
Indy Johar @indyjohar.bsky.social Building the Boring Revolution, Increasingly Co-Intrapreneuring, Co-Founder of darkmatterlabs.org, project00.cc,
Professor, Architect, MBE, FRSA, Non Executive @ opensystemslab.org and Bloxhub.dk
Zach Mortice @zachmortice.bsky.social Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
https://zachmortice.com
Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, @utoronto.ca Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Sean Griffiths @sean-griffiths.bsky.social Architect, Professor, Trade Unionist.
David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.
Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social News editor at the AJ. Into architecture and gossip. Bradford and London.
Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social buildings, politics, miscellaneous
Everybody's gay, Kimmy. It's the 90s.
Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell.bsky.social Historian of Comfort & Arts & Crafts Revivalist @CharlesHollArch ...thinking about home, comfort & domestic life 🏡 📚🥑
https://www.bartlettarchhistory.com/daniel-stilwell
Oli Marshall @olimarshall.bsky.social London by way of Yorkshire | Campaigns Director at @C20Society.bsky.social
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Duncan Blackmore @arrantindustries.bsky.social AKA Arrant Industries
Hands-on urbanism / Good development / Small sites / Planning / Experimental investment / Arts
Honcho at Arrant Land
Co-honcho at Neighbourhood
Waltham Forest DRP
www.arrantindustries.com
www.arrantland.com
www.neighbourhood.company
Louise Benson @louisebenson.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at Ocula. Co-founder of interiors magazine Scenic Views. Trustee of Wysing Arts Centre. Writing on art, photography, politics + identity. louisebenson@artreview.com
Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social Architectural journalist, editor, and broadcaster
Tom Wilkinson @tmowilkinson.bsky.social historian of art and architecture
tmowilkinson.com
Modernist Estates @modernistestates.bsky.social Designer and writer (📚Modernist Estates, The Barbican Estate, Modernist Escapes and Golden Lane Estate)
🥾 Perambulations architecture walking guides 👉🏼 https://thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk
💻 Not-for-profit estate agency 👉🏼 modernistestates.com
Alex Needham @alexneedham.bsky.social Arts editor of The Guardian.
Anjulie Rao @anjulierao.bsky.social I write about the built environment. Bylines in a lot of places.
Anjulierao.info
Rob Fiehn @robfiehn.bsky.social Writer, editor, PR, enthusiast (buildings) | Director at The London Society | Chair of Museum of Architecture | Trustee for Blackhorse Workshop
Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social Writer, journalist, UEL academic and trying to have it all mum of two boys. Author of Ground Control and Big Capital. Working on a new book on the global housing crisis, which will be published by Penguin in 2026. Contributor to Guardian & FT
George Kafka @gkafka.bsky.social Interdependent architecture/design curator, writer, editor | georgekafka.co.uk | London
Gillian Darley OBE @gmdarksky.bsky.social Writer, reader, perambulator, observer.
www.gilliandarley.com
Andrés Jaque @andresjaque.bsky.social Founder of the Office for Political Innovation, OFFPOLINN. Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, GSAPP
Nieuwe Instituut @nieuweinstituut.nl Museum and institute for architecture, design and digital culture. https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en
Walter Menteth @waltermenteth.bsky.social Architect, planner, writer, London - views my own (he/him)
People, #culture, #politics, #environment, #climate, #justice, #sustainability, #democracy
The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social The Funambulist is a magazine and a podcast engaging with the politics of space and bodies.
We have a francophone version as well!
https://thefunambulist.net/shop/67-diasporic-introspections
tontita00 @tontita00.bsky.social IFYKYK
Owen Pritchard @opritchard.bsky.social Editor - 5’ 10” - Wales
Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and formerly ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
Inga Saffron @ingasaffron.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize-winning Arch. Critic phillyinquirer & author “Becoming Philadelphia”, 20 years of columns, from rutgersupress Lotsa buildings on IG.
Philip Kennicott @philipkennicott.bsky.social Senior Art and Architecture Critic at The Washington Post, author of Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning (Norton).🐕🎹
https://www.philipkennicott.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/philip-kennicott/
Blair Kamin @kaminblair.bsky.social Fortunate husband. Proud dad. Former Chicago Tribune architecture critic. Pulitzer, Polk winner. 2013 Nieman. Books: “Why Architecture Matters,” “Terror and Wonder,” “Who Is the City For?,” “Gates of Harvard Yard,” “Amherst College: The Campus Guide.”
David Batty @david-batty.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Guardian: visiting journalism lecturer at City St George’s University. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidbatty
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Jeremy Till @jeremytill.bsky.social Writer, educator and recovering architect. Once Head of Central Saint Martins, UAL. Now Emeritus Professor and free spirit. Posting on climate, spatial practice and hope.
Marco Ferrari @marcoferrari.bsky.social Co-founder of Studio Folder, agency for visual design and spatial research. Head of MA Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven.