CONTRIBUTING WRITER / EDITOR to: GOOD Magazine, Domus, Design Observer, Harvard Design Magazine, Mute Magazine, Volume, Architect Magazine, PLANET Mag, Triple Canopy, Arquine, The State, openDemocracy, Funambulist, and others. 

VISITING FACULTY Woodbury University School of Architecture (San Diego, CA) (2009-2010)

CO-FOUNDER of DEMILIT (DM3) art / landscape / research collective (@demilit)

CO-FOUNDER of 52-BLUE experimental sono-spatial studio

FORMER SENIOR EDITOR at Archinect

BLOG: [SUBTOPIA: A Field Guide to Military Urbanism -- (Spatial Politics // Counter-Geographies // Carceral Landscapes // Cryptoentomology // Sonic Imaginaries)] @subtopes

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"Meet The Bloggers" (Architect Magazine, 2007) -- "...I much prefer the outsider perspective.” - Finoki

My first blog from '04 focussed on homelessness and architecture, used as a platform to organize the very first local volunteer-based chapter for Architecture For Humanity. 

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Latest: 

'Dark_Freqs' [18 min. sound collage for Princeton's audio based journal  ATTN Issue #7 Detective Work, edited by Megan Eardley, 2022] 

The Sound of Secrecy (conversation with Megan Eardley, 2022)

Recent Writing:

• Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer (book) | Architecture Vs. The People and Spaciocide (two essays reprinted), (MIT Press, 11/2018)
• Harvard Design Magazine (print) | La Esmeralda, and a Brief Interrogation of Prison Ship Memory (essay in Issue No. 43 "Shelf Life", 2016)
• Harvard Design Magazine (online/print) | Suspunk: Thinking with Suspicious Packages (a piece co-authored with Demilit in issue No. 42 "Run For Cover!", 2016)
• Design Observer: The Quarterly, Volume One, Number Two (print) | <Tag Space> [Extract (2016)] 
• Design Observer (web) | The Heights of NIMBY-ism (2015) 
• Design Observer (web journal) | Spaciocide (2015) | Second part in series on the anti-homeless landscape. 
• Design Observer (web journal) | Architecture Vs. The People (2015) | First of a multi-part series on the physical and legal architecture of the neoliberal city's anti-homeless landscape.

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Design Observer (web) | "(in)Fringe": a new series of audio and text based dispatches exploring "sonic edges" in the San Francisco Bay Area, collaborating with Nick Sowers as "52-Blue."

• 52-Blue Introducing (in)Fringe (02/15)

• The New Mission Soundtrack (02/15)
• Ghost Ecology (3/15)
• Blanket of Silence (4/15)
• Dissident Noise (5/15)
• Hushed Spaces (7/15) 
• High Noon : (#TuesNoonSiren) (9/15) 

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Collaborative Writing/Projects with DEMILIT:

• "OKLDCAAN: Capital Building of the Oakland Security Cloud" / Article with Demilit for the inaugural issue of The Funambulist Magazine, edited by by LÉOPOLD LAMBERT. Militarized Cities, (2015)
• UCSD Visual Arts Dept. | "[In]visible Sites" (Collaborative Fiction with Demilit) for publication In conjunction with 'Timing is Everything' (a multimedia exhibition) October 3 - December 6, 2013
• Volume (Magazine) | "Footprinting Secrecy" (Collaborative Essay with Demilit, #36 Ways To Be Critical(2013) (Preview p. 19)
• "Terra Incognita" (Newspaper Feature): A puzzle completed only in the player’s imagination. Conceived by the @Demilit collaborative for the New City Reader’s Istanbul Design Biennial 2012 edition, issue no. 3.
• The State (Journal) | "they came to the desert and were consumed by a flickering fortress" [(Collaborative fiction with demilit, VOL II: Speculative Geographies (2012)] #GARPAZOO
• Ice Wall Archive (A Proposal for a Monument to Cold War Victory by DM 3 , 2012-2014) 
• "Waiting for Paglen" / A quasi-fictional anti-manifesto on the nature of maps. (2010)
• "Decoding Military Landscapes" | workshop with DEMILIT at Just Metropolis Conf. (UCBerk. 2010) | full text

Coverage of collaborative work with DM3 on the "Oakland Security Cloud." 

• ARCHIPELAGO (Audio podcast) | A WEAPONIZED URBANITY: MORNING DRIFT IN MILITARIZED DOWNTOWN OAKLAND
 - Conversation recorded with DEMILIT (Bryan Finoki, Nick Sowers, and Javier Arbona) in Oakland (May 2, 2014) 
• "Exposing Our Infrastructure: MacroCity Conference Reveals the Secret Machinery of Cities" [A review by Ben Valentine of DEMILIT's (Bryan Finoki, Nick Sowers, and Javier Arbona) walking tour of Oakland's downtown surveillance industrial cloud, as organized through the MacroCity conference, May 2014]. 
• "WEAPONISED URBANITY A walk through militarised downtown Oakland" / Further coverage of DEMILIT's Oakland walk in issue 45 of DAMN, by LÉOPOLD LAMBERT

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Other Selected Writing:

• "The Funambulist Papers, Volume 1 (Book) | [(Edited by Léopold Lambert) -- "Ruin Machine" pg. 77 (Reprinted) (October 2013)] - buy here
• openDemocracy (web journal) | "Tunnelling Borders" (2013)
• THE FORENSICS OF URBICIDE | Center for Research Architecture, (2010) | (produced during Urbicide: The Politics of Destruction symposium) archived also here.
• Interview with Bryan Finoki | (Published in the book Weaponized Architecture--The Impossibility of Innocence) Author: Leopold Lambert, published by DPR in 2011)
• GOOD Magazine (Web) | “WANTED: Prison Food Writers” (an article for the Food For Thinkers series, curated by Nicola Twilley, GOOD’s Food Editor, Jan. 23, 2011).
• Domus Magazine (Web) | “Double Zero (Or How to Green Secrecy)” (an Op-Ed for online magazine, Dec. 23, 2010.)
• Arquine Magazine | “The Carceral Landscape on High Seas” (article for “Dossiers” section in issue focused on “Architecture and Fear”, Dec. 2010.)
• Triple Canopy (web journal) | “The Anatomy of Ruins”, (essay and photos for Issue #7 – Urbanism: master plans)
• Where We Are Now (journal) | “The Ruin Machine”, (an essay for Autumn 2009, Issue 2 – Speculating on Change / 10-17-09)
• OPEN cahier (Book) | Writer / Interviewer “City in the Crosshairs: A Discussion with Stephen Graham Pt 1” (Bryan Finoki interviews geographer Stephen Graham -- reprinted from Subtopia) – (Issue # 18 2030: War Zone Amsterdam – OPEN, 2009)
• Crit (AIA Student Journal) / ‘MOUT and the Urban Imaginary’, (Issue #67 Crit – From Conflict, Spring 2009)
• Volume [Magazine (Online)] | “Teaching Spatial Justice” (Online, Sept. 23, 2009)
• Refuge/Refugee / "Towards a Nomadic Fortress" (Book) [(a chapter for a book published by Chain Links on militarized border geographies, (2009)] -- Buy here
• Mute Magazine | “Borders 2.0 – Future, Tense” [collaborative project with Angela Mitropoulos] 2008
• Volume (Magazine) | ‘Subversive Border Suture’, (Issue #14: Office for Unsolicited Architecture / Subverting Borders, January 2008)
• Mute Magazine | "Creative Gulag" (2007) 
• BagNews | "Blinding At The Border" (2007)
• BagNews | "Portable Justice" (2007)
• Occupied London | “Urbanization of Panic” / (Quarterly Journal), Issue Two, Autumn 2007 - Internet Archive
• Inhabitat | "Post-slum Payatas" (2006)
• Inhabitat | "Migrant Housing" (2006)
• Archinect | Hitching Stealth with Trevor Paglen (2005)
• Archinect | Review of Sam Davis' Book 'Designing For The Homeless' (2005)
• PLANET MAG | Review of Phaidon's Atlas of Architecture (2004)
• PLANET MAG | Feature for 'Voices' section on Architecture For Humanity's Cameron Sinclair (2004)

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