The Architect's Newspaper serves up news and inside reports to a niche community of architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, lighting designers, interior designers, academics, developers, contractors, and other parties interested in the built urban environment. The Architect’s Newspaper delivers quality news and cultural reporting through print, web, blog, newsletter, or twitter—all the news you want, in all the ways you want to get it.

Readers tell us constantly that The Architect’s Newspaper is “essential,” “relevant,” “timely,” and “the only thing I read.” They want a source that understands their interests and practices—and gives them what they need to know in brief and with a point of view. No rah-rah. Just useful information and insightful, readable criticism. Diverse voices. Open dialogue.

Combining timeliness with authority, The Architect's Newspaper is the most comprehensive source of information on the latest projects and commissions, unfolding politics and debate, and cultural developments related to architecture, with national coverage by way of three broadly regional editions—East, West, and Midwest.

Our news pages are rounded out by a mix of topical essays, opinionated columns, project analyses, firm profiles, interviews, new products, reviews of exhibitions and books, plus an updated calendar of important events and competitions. We also have a deeply in-the-know gossip column, a favorite with readers.

If you care about architecture and design, join our community and get in the know.

• Diana Darling, Founder and Publisher

  Diana Darling is responsible for finance, sales, marketing, production, and the general media operations of all editions of the newspaper. In 2006 she organized and helped develop the New Practices round tables, lectures, competition, and exhibition with the AIA New York chapter. New Practices seeks to engage young architecture firms in a discussion of subjects like business development necessary to become a successful small practice. She helped formulate a competition that selected six firms to become examples of a successful practice in an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York City.

  Darling has over twenty years of graphic arts, print, and multi-title catalog and marketing, production, circulation, and distribution experience for companies such as Bloomingdales, The Limited, and Neiman Marcus. Before founding The Architect's Newspaper, Darling established the European marketing office for the Gap, based in London. She was a member of the launch team for the Banana Republic catalog in 1999. She is currently a board member of Open House New York and CultureNOW.

• William Menking, Founder and Editor-in-Chief

  William Menking is an architectural historian, writer, critic, and curator of architecture and urbanism. He is professor of architecture, urbanism, and city planning at Pratt Institute and has lectured and taught at schools in the United States and Europe. He has been published in numerous architectural publications, anthologies, and museum catalogues. He has curated and organized international exhibitions on the visionary British architects Archigram, the Italian radical architects Superstudio, and contemporary English design, and he served as Commissioner of the U.S. pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale. He has participated in various juries including the 2006 and 2008 New York City AIA New Practices, 2007 and 2008 San Francisco AIA Honor Awards, and the 2007 Lumen awards for lighting.

• Julie V. Iovine, Executive Editor

  Julie V. Iovine is an architecture and design reporter, editor, and critic with an international reputation based on more than a decade as a features reporter and editor at The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. In addition to her role as architecture critic for The Architect's Newspaper since 2004, Iovine writes for a wide range of publications including Architectural Digest (Germany), Art Review (UK), Art & Auction, Architectural Record, ID, Interior Design, Elle Decor, and Town & Country. She is the author of Guggenheim: New York/Bilbao (Princeton Architectural Press), Michael Graves (Chronicle), Chic Simple: Home (Knopf) and a contributor to essays in Minimum: Home (Phaidon) and Ingo Mauer (Cooper-Hewitt/Assouline).

• Molly Heintz, Managing Editor

  Molly Heintz has worked in publishing and communications focused on architecture and design for over ten years. She holds a master’s in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University, and is currently completing an MFA in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Molly has led communications departments at Gensler and Rockwell Group, and she co-edited the book Spectacle by David Rockwell and Bruce Mau (Phaidon 2006). She has contributed to a variety of design and style publications since moving to New York in 2001, and from June to December 2010, she was a Fellow at the Philip Johnson Glass House.

• Dustin Koda, Art Director

  Dustin Koda joined the design team at The Architect’s Newspaper in 2005 after receiving a BFA in graphic design from the University of Hawaii. In his current role as art director, Dustin leads the visual development and production of the publication, managing the creative flow of images and text into the final product and conceptualizing custom graphics for special issues and events.

• Sam Lubell, West Coast Editor

  Sam Lubell was news editor at Architectural Record, where he remains a contributor, and he recently completed books on architectural photography titled Julius Schulman Los Angeles and new Paris architecture, called Paris 2000+ (Monacelli Press, 2007). His writing has appeared in Architectural Record, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, New York, Travel + Leisure, and many other publications. He is working on a second book, London 2000+.

• Alan G. Brake, Midwest Editor

  Alan G. Brake has written about architecture, design, and urbanism for Architecture, Architectural Record, Azure, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Metropolis, The New York Times and other publications. He studied architectural history and urbanism at Vassar College and Yale University, where he earned a Masters in Environmental Design. He is the recipient of a research grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

• Paola Antonelli, Design curator, MOMA
• M. Christine Boyer, Professor of architecture, Princeton University
• Peter Cook, Architect
• Whitney Cox, Architectural photographer
• Odile Decq, Architect
• Melissa Feldman, Design writer
• Tom Hanrahan, Dean of Architecture, Pratt Institute
• Craig Konyk, Architect
• Jayne Merkel, Architecture critic
• Signe Nielson, Landscape architect
• Joan Ockman, Historian and critic
• Kyong Park, Architect
• Anne Rieselbach, Program director, The Architectural League
• Terence Riley, Architect
• Ken Saylor, Designer
• Darius Somers, Architectural designer
• Michael Sorkin, Architect
• Mark E. Strauss, Architect

• Aaron Betsky, Director, Cincinnati Art Museum
• Robert Bruegmann, Architectural historian
• Sarah Dunn, Research Director, Archeworks
• Zurich Esposito, Executive Vice President, AIA Chicago
• Martin Felsen, Director, Archeworks
• Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
• Reed Kroloff, Director, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Museum
• Edward Lifson, Architecture critic
• Robert MacAnulty, Architect
• Ben Nicholson, Architect
• Donna Robertson, Dean, Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture
• Raymond Ryan, Curator, Heinz Architectural Center
• Zoe Ryan, Design Curator, Art Institute of Chicago
• Elizabeth Smith, Curator and author
• Julie Snow, Architect
• Michael Speaks, Dean, University of Kentucky College of Design
• Martha Thorne, Executive Director, Pritzker Architecture Prize
• Andrew Zago, Architect

• Frances Anderton, Architecture and design journalist
• Steve Castellanos, Architect
• Erin Cullerton, Founder, Design Agency Co.
• Teddy Cruz, Architect
• Mike Davis, Author
• Neil Denari, Architect
• Betti Sue Hertz, Director of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Brooke Hodge, Curator of Architecture & Design
• Craig Hodgetts, Architect
• Walter Hood, Landscape architect
• David Meckel, Architect, California College of the Arts
• Kimberli Meyers, Curator, MAK Center
• John Parman, Journalist
• Simon Sadler, Architectural historian
• Roger Sherman, Architect
• William Stout, William Stout Architectural Books
• Warren Techentin, Architect
• Henry Urbach, Curator and writer

• Paul Beatty, President, Paul Beatty Consulting
• Sandy Chilewich, President, Chilewich Designs
• Paul Finch, Director of World Architecture Festival
• Rob Forbes, Founder, Design Within Reach
• Mark Goldberg, President, MG and Company
• Linda Ong, Founder, Truth Consulting