Mission: The goal of Archinect is to make architecture more connected and open-minded, and bring together designers from around the world to introduce new ideas from all disciplines.
Background: Archinect was initially developed in 1997 by Paul Petrunia. The site has since become a top online destination for progressive-design oriented students, architects, educators, and fans.
The Team: Archinect's direction is driven by the staff and contributors, as pictured below. Archinect's member-based community system allows anyone to participate by registering and contributing. Please contact us if you would like to contribute. We're always open to new perspectives.
Paul Petrunia
Founder & Creative Director
Paul Petrunia is the founder and director of Archinect, a (mostly) online publication/resource founded in 1997 to establish a more connected community of architects, students, designers and fans of the designed environment. Outside of managing his growing team of writers, editors, designers and continue...
Alexander Walter
Editorial & Production Manager
Alexander Walter grew up in East Germany with plenty of Bratwurst. He studied Architecture and Media Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, and participated in foreign exchange programs with Washington-Alexandria Architecture Consortium in Alexandria, Virginia and Waseda University in continue...
Nicole Schiller
Business Manager
Nicole manages the communications and advertising for Archinect. She handles national and international academic and architectural product campaigns. Before working at Archinect, Nicole worked as a Major Account Manager for a fortune 500 company. She has a degree in Child Development and worked continue...
Niall Patrick Walsh
Features Writer & News Reporter
Niall Patrick Walsh is an architect and journalist, living in Belfast, Ireland. He writes feature articles for Archinect and leads the Archinect In-Depth series. He is also a licensed architect in the UK and Ireland, having previously worked at BDP, one of the largest design + continue...
Nathaniel Bahadursingh
Writer
I am a Brooklyn-based writer that specializes in covering topics related to architecture, urban planning, and technology. I have a holistic skillset, able to blend my technical background in urban studies and architecture with my creative abilities, which is best reflected through my continue...
Josh Niland
Features Writer & News Reporter
Josh Niland is a Connecticut-based writer and editor. He studied philosophy at Boston University and worked briefly in the museum field and as a substitute teacher before joining Archinect. He has experience in the newsrooms of various cultural outlets and has published writing continue...
Suzannah Grasel is an Architect and artist based in Seattle, Washington. Her portfolio includes various projects encompassing high-end residential developments, cultural institutions, educational, master planning initiatives, recreational spaces, hospitality, and civic structures. Her diverse continue...
Rene Peralta studied Architecture at the New School of Architecture in San Diego and the Architectural Association in London, England. He has a Master of Science in Planning with emphasis in History and Theory from the University of Oklahoma. Peralta is a co-author with Fiamma Montezemolo, and continue...
Jamie Chan is a freelance writer with an interest in architecture education. She also serves as the Marketing Director for Studio AArde, a Los Angeles-based design firm.
Katherine is an LA-based writer and editor. She was Archinect's former Editorial Manager and Advertising Manager from 2018 – January 2024. During her time at Archinect, she's conducted and written 100+ interviews and specialty features with architects, designers, academics, and industry continue...
I am currently based in NYC, but originally from Alicante, Spain. My lifelong passion for Art led me to pursue a Degree in Architecture.After working as an Architect in Dublin, I pursued a Master's degree in Art Direction at ESCAC in Barcelona. Combining my love for Architecture, Design continue...
Stanislas Chaillou is an architect, designer and AI-researcher working today at Rayon. His practice, publications, teaching and exhibits tackle the back-and-forth between geometry, artificial intelligence (AI) and culture. Trained both as an continue...
Chilean born and Austrian native, Matias del Campo graduated with distinction from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. In 2003 he co-founded SPAN Architects in Vienna, together with Sandra Manninger. The globally acting practice is best known for their sophisticated application of continue...
Amanda Wasielewski is Associate Senior Lecturer of Digital Humanities and Associate Professor (Docent) of Art History at Uppsala University. Her writing and research investigate the use of digital technology in relation to art/visual culture and spatial practice. Her recent focus has been on the continue...
Phil Bernstein is an architect and technologist who has taught at the Yale School of Architecture since 1988 and where he received his B.A and M.Arch. He was a Vice President at Autodesk where he was responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for BIM technology. Prior continue...
Peder Anker is Professor in History at New York University. He is the author of From Bauhaus to Eco-House: A History of Ecological Design (2010), Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, 1895-1945 (2001), and The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental continue...
Daniel Vella is an established architectural designer with experience across Europe and the US. His project experience is both broad and deep, having worked on award-winning residential towers in Manchester, hotels in London, and hospitality and workplace designs across the US. On both continue...
As a passionate entrepreneur, designer, and strategist, I've had the opportunity to work on five continents and design across scales -- digital, product, and spatial: from co-founding a social enterprise in East Africa, earthquake engineering in Central Asia, developing high-rise towers in North continue...
Jason has been an instrumental leader in FSB’s strong Native American market for over a decade. A Native American himself, Jason is passionate about working together with tribes to support the development of their communities. He brings well-respected problem solving skills, leadership, and continue...
Michael is Design Director at NAC Architecture in pursuit of humane design and empathy. His work seeks the intersection of social purpose, tactical research and wit. He is a former faculty at Art Center College of Design, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and Woodbury University continue...
Torey Carter-Conneen joined ASLA as Chief Executive Officer in August 2020. He has served in executive leadership roles for companies ranging in size from $7 million to $750 million in annual revenues and staff of nearly four hundred. Prior to joining ASLA, Torey served as Chief Operating Officer continue...
Sean Joyner is a writer and essayist based in Los Angeles. His work explores themes spanning architecture, culture, and everyday life. Sean's essays and articles have been featured in The Architect's Newspaper, ARCHITECT Magazine, Dwell Magazine, and Archinect. He also works as an continue...
Based in New York City, Maria is a Master of Architecture student at Columbia University. An Avid reader, Maria's favorite genres are Philosophical Fiction/Non-Fiction, Sci-Fi, Psychological Non-Fiction, and she always enjoys a good Classic. Her favorite writer is Fyodor Dostoevsky. Maria continue...
Duo Dickinson has been an architect for more than 30 years. The author of eight books, he is the architecture critic for the New Haven Register, writes on design and culture for the Hartford Courant, and is on the faculty at the Building Beauty Program at Sant'Anna Institute in Sorrento, Italy.
I am a young architectural designer working at Porta Corcyrensis, fostering my curiosity and expertise in variety of scales. Among other aspects, I focus on renovations, design development, systems integration, accessibility assessment and code compliance. In addition to pursuing architectural continue...
Kendall A. Nicholson is a licensed educator, trained architectural designer, and an avid researcher. He works as the Director of Research and Information at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and is currently furthering his research at Harvard’s Graduate continue...
A long-time contributor to Archinect as a senior editor and writing about architecture, urbanism, people, politics, arts, and culture. The featured articles, interviews, news posts, activism, and provocations are published here and on other websites and media. A licensed architect in continue...
Alex Morales, Assoc. AIA, EDAC, LEED Green Assoc.
Alex is a design professional whose work and collaboration across the AEC industry span several years. Exploration, curiosity, and due diligence have been essential in his commitment to perpetually improve as a designer. Prior to his roles in construction project management, his career began in continue...
Melvin L. Mitchell, FAIA, NCARB, NOMA
Melvin L. Mitchell has been in practice in Washington, DC for 45 years, a past president, DC Board of Architecture, former director, the Institute (now school) of Architecture & Planning at Morgan State, and former full-time faculty member at Howard and University of the District of Columbia continue...
Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. He created the video series The City in Cinema and is now at work on a book, The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles.
Dante is a PhD student studying the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. He is a licensed architect in New York State.
Scott studied his Masters in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture and his BA Architecture degree at Manchester University. His professional industry experience spans education, commercial and residential sectors, gained at award winning design practices including CRTKL, Austin Smith continue...
Kearon Roy Taylor is a designer at Lateral Office and lecturer at the John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design in Toronto, Ontario.
An aspiring designer interested in understanding our built environments through practice, documentation and archiving architectural heritage. I design interiors and objects and occasionally write about things with the intention of furthering the discourse surrounding political, sociocultural and continue...
I am a Designer and Writer with a Master’s degree in Architecture from Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria as the best graduating student. He is an architectural journalist who uses Storytelling and comics to relate architecture and urbanism to the public. He collaborated on a continue...
I am an architectural designer originally from Mexico, with studies in the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Texas Southmost College and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology.Throughout my education I developed an interest in the intersection between history and technology in architecture continue...
With a hybrid background between design and technology, Alessio Grancini is a prototype engineer at Magic Leap. He is interested in AR and VR meeting human interaction. He taught Unity workshops internationally, exhibited work in art galleries, and published multiple articles about AR/VR.
V. Mitch McEwen is Director of Princeton's Black Box Research Group and Principal of Atelier Office. McEwen's design work has been awarded grants from the Graham Foundation, Knight Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts. McEwen's projects have been commissioned by the continue...
Antonio is a Los Angeles-based writer, designer, and preservationist. He completed the M.Arch I and Master of Preservation Studies programs at Tulane University in 2014, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010. Antonio has written extensively continue...
Margie Lavender is a Principal at Ike Kligerman Barkley, a firm known for distinctive design rooted in tradition, yet modern in its sculptural forms, taught detailing, and often a touch of whimsy. Outside of architecture, she is passionate about gardening and is a patron member of the New continue...
Newton D’souza is Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Interior Architecture, Florida International University, Miami. He has previously served as Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Architectural Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia. He has published continue...
Guy Pearson is a qualified architect and urban designer. His interest and skills lie in the links between the two disciplines, including master planning and designing mixed use, high density urban neighbourhoods. Guy is an advocate of sustainable design to create liveable, healthy communities.
Hannah is an architect and writer based in Tanzania, East Africa. Her monthly feature column for Archinect, 'Architecture Futures', explores the technological developments currently shaping the architecture profession within wider cultural and political discussions by bringing together critical continue...
With “architecture in his DNA,” David West is a veteran with over 30 years of experience. From the time he built model airplanes as a young boy, West has always been fascinated by the art, science, history, math, and “respecting the past” of architecture which has continued continue...
Lada Kocherovsky, AIA is a Principal with Page & Turnbull, an architecture, design, planning and preservation firm in California with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Noted for her ability to lead innovative integration of new architecture into existing structures and continue...
Luis Vidal is the president and founding partner of luis vidal + architects, a Madrid-based architecture practice with offices in Spain, the U.K., Chile, the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Vidal offers responsible and quality designs in response to the urban and social challenges of the day continue...
Ebrahim Poustinchi, architect, artist, and inventor, is an Associate Professor of Digital Design at Kent State University. He has previously taught at the University of Kentucky, Washington State University, and UCLA. Poustinchi’s research is focused on the intersection of media and continue...
A citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, Joseph is the Director of MASS Design Group’s Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab based in Santa Fe, NM. In 2019, Joseph was awarded an Obama Foundation Fellowship for his work exploring transformational change that aligns with Indigenous continue...
Lonny Rossman, AIA, NCARB, is the Founder and Managing Principal of API Partners, an Executive Search + Strategic Consulting Firm focused on the Built Environment professions. He is an active member of AIA Philadelphia and was Chair of the Design Committee 2001-2020. In addition, Lonny was a continue...
Gabriel Nolle is an architect, educator, and writer that believes architecture begins with the land. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Gabriel’s work focuses on place-specific design and how architecture interfaces with the natural world.
Galo Canizares is a designer, writer, and educator. He holds an M.Arch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and teaches at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture. His ongoing work concerns the production of architectural media after the rise of digital culture.
Saba Salekfard is an architectural designer and educator from Los Angeles. She earned her Master’s in Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture and a Bachelor’s Degree from the California Polytechnic University, Pomona, receiving awards such as the Outstanding Thesis Prize and continue...
About Studio ST ArchitectsStudio ST Architects is a full-service, woman-owned, architectural firm located in Manhattan. They are a New York City certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE). The firm believes in innovative, sustainable and responsible design. They strive to combine leading continue...
Milton S. F. Curry is Dean and Professor at the University of Southern California School of Architecture; and holds the Della & Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture - positions he has held since July 2017. Dean Curry obtained his Master in Architecture post-professional degree continue...
Editor/Writer for Archinect + sister site Bustler. Leans toward: public interest design, illustration, graphic design, history, and general pop-culture geekiness, among other things. Enjoys a good bowl of noodles.
Writer and fake architect, among other feints. Principal at Adjustments Agency. Co-founder of Encyclopedia Inc. Get in touch: nicholas@archinect.com
Ellen Hancock studied Fine Art and History of Art at The University of Leeds and Sculpture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul.Now based in London she has a keen interest in travel, literature, interactive art and social architecture.
A designer & writer based in Los Angeles anastasiatokmakova.comyouthartsclub.com
Eleanor Marshall is a writer and architectural designer based in London and Scotland. She has worked in public realm and industrial design offices in the US and the UK, and with city transport authorities in Edinburgh, London, Milan, Moscow and NYC. Her areas of practice are transport continue...
Urban Operations is a Los Angeles-based architecture and research firm founded by architect John Southern in 2005.The studio specializes in design/build work and research projects that seek to expand critical discourse within the design profession. Through its research division, Urbanops.org, the continue...
Patrick is a Los Angeles-based designer, writer, and educator. He has practiced architecture in Los Angeles and at Sea Ranch, and has taught design studios at SCI-Arc. He currently teaches at the Woodbury University School of Architecture. As a contributor to Archinect, he has written Under continue...
Ryan Scavnicky is the founder of Extra Office. The practice investigates architecture’s relationship to contemporary culture, aesthetics, and media to seek new agencies for critical practice. He studied at L'Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris and DAAP in Cincinnati for his Masters of continue...
Anthony Morey is a Los Angeles based designer, curator, educator, and lecturer of experimental methods of art, design and architectural biases. Morey concentrates in the formulation and fostering of new modes of disciplinary engagement, public dissemination, and cultural cultivation. Morey is the continue...
Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco is a New York and Barcelona based architect, curator and scholar. He was the chief curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 together with the After Belonging Agency, and he is currently a PhD Candidate at Princeton University, and a Critical continue...
Peter brings over 20 years of experience in building, urban design, interior architecture, and exhibition design to OFICINA MARTINEZ ZELLNER LLC. Peter has worked in Melbourne, Australia, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and New York City. In the offices of Davis Brody Bond and continue...
Demar Matthew is a Los Angeles based architectural designer,theorist, and creative. Demar is the founder and Principal of OffTop Design. He also works with A+D Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles as curator/exhibitions associate.Born in Moreno Valley, CA Demar received his Bachelor’s continue...
Arnaud Marthouret is the founder of rvltr and leads their strategy, visual communications and media efforts. He has helped numerous architects and interior designers promote themselves in their best light - pun intended - in order to help them run more effective practices and grow in a meaningful continue...
Clemens Finkelstein is a historian and theorist of art and architecture. He is a doctoral student in the History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, a graduate of the History and Philosophy of Design program at Harvard University, and has worked extensively as a writer continue...
Design Technology Specialist at TEECOM. Working on building better tools for design and engineering.
Konstantinos Chatzaras is a New York based architect and writer, focused on the contemporary multiplicity of the architectural and urban form seen as a plural whole. Konstantinos holds his Master of Architecture degree with commendation from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design continue...
Aric Gitomer Architect, LLC is a small, boutique residential architectural practice giving one on one attention to each homeowner. Aric Gitomer, AIA principal architect has been creating residential architectural solutions for over 30 years. He specializes in home renovation, residential design continue...
Gunnar Hubbard FAIA, LEED Fellow
Gunnar Hubbard is a recognized leader in green building across the United States and in Asia, Europe and the Middle East with 25 years of experience as a licensed architect, consultant, educator and advocate. As a principal and Thornton Tomasetti’s Sustainability practice leader, he continue...
Erin Cuevas is an architect committed to addressing the increasingly media-centric world by challenging the intersection of culture, digital behavior and architecture. Together with Jana Masset she co-founded Curious Minds Los Angeles, an architecture office focusing on sensory and continue...
Christine is an architect and writer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is co-founder of the urban think-tank In-Between Economies and she is the editor of the multifaceted website and publication project www.thefxbeauties.club. She is currently a teaching assistant at the continue...
Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Author of A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War. More details at my Penn web page.
Matthew Allen is a PhD candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has an MArch from the GSD and degrees in physics and the comparative history of ideas, and he has worked previously in the video game and bioengineering industries. Allen is also a lecturer at the University of continue...
Yoonjee Koh is an educator, designer, and curator. Currently the Director of Intermediate Architecture Studios at the Boston Architectural College in Boston, MA, Yoonjee is invested in raising intellectual awareness across platforms of critical dialogue. She has founded initiatives that cultivate continue...
I was born in Cuba, in the outskirts of Havana, into a peculiar community of artisans, sculptors and painters forgotten by the pass of time. El Cerro, in 1986, was a dull and small city with a population divided by the only two trades available at the time: stealing, or selling art to foreigners continue...
Brendan Shea makes architecture, archives, spaces, and classes. Currently at: Reimaging, a practice Roundhouse, a platform 2426, a space USC, a school Currently doing: Public Programming, a film series
Duane McLemore, AIA is the co-founder with Katherine Voorhies of Xover0.com (X Over Zero), a design studio specializing in computationally-designed jewelry. This includes the Geoheart pendant worn by Joey King during the filming of upcoming Netflix feature Uglies, based on the New York Times continue...
Joe Kennedy is a designer working in the San Francisco office of Snohetta. Previously, he spent a year in Norway on a Fulbright research fellowship while helping teach a design build studio at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He has worked for firms from New York to Taipei and completed continue...
Irish-born journalist and copywriter interested in art, history, architecture, urban planning and travel. Currently freelancing from Santander in Northern Spain where she's been based since 2007. Has freelanced from Madrid and Amsterdam and worked in-house on editorial teams for business and continue...
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