BLDGBLOG

BLDGBLOG
Created by Geoff Manaugh
Slogan(s) "architectural conjectures, urban speculation, landscape futures"[1]
Website http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

BLDGBLOG is an architecture blog authored by futurist Geoff Manaugh, former editor at Dwell magazine,[2] former Editor-in-Chief at Gizmodo,[3][4] and a contributing editor at Wired UK.[5] It is acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Architectural Review.[6] Manaugh's book A Burglar's Guide to the City has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It was named by Amazon as one of the best books of 2016.[7]

Bibliography

The BLDGBLOG Book was published by Chronicle Books in April 2009. The book includes numerous essays and images from the website, but Manaugh's favored themes are heavily expanded in the body text of the book, which was written specifically for the publication.

References

  1. "Blogged by building". The Architectural Review. August 1, 2005.
  2. "A Contest to Re-Imagine the White House". NPR.com.
  3. Kurutz, Steven. "Moving Past the Latest Smartphone". Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. Beaujon, Andrew. "Gizmodo editor-in-chief Geoff Manaugh 'did not integrate well' and is gone". Poynter.org. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  5. http://www.talkitect.com/2010/06/geoff-manaugh-of-building-blog-resident.html
  6. {{cite web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704u/nj_powers_2007-04-17 |title=Mutual Suspicion |first=William |date=April 17, 2007 |last=Powers |quote=Thus, when I noticed that The Wall Street Journal (hard copy) was praising an architecture blog I'd never seen called BLDGBLOG, I opened my screen and typed it right in—it was a winner.}}
  7. "Amazon.com: Best Books of the Month: Books". Retrieved 2016-09-04.

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