Andrew Blum is an independent journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a contributing editor at Metropolis, a correspondent at WIRED, and a consulting editor at UrbanOmnibus -- but these days he is busy writing a book about the physical infrastructure of the Internet, to be published by Ecco/HarperCollins in the US, Viking in the UK, and Knaus in Germany.
Andrew typically writes about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art and travel-- all subjects arising out of his interest in the relationship between place and technology. Since 1999, his articles and essays have appeared in Metropolis, Wired, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Business Week, Travel & Leisure, Print, ID, Popular Science, Architectural Record, Slate, Surface, Dialogue, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and Interior Design. He is represented by Zoe Pagnamenta at the Zoe Pagnamenta Agency.
Aside from writing, he has been a guest commentator on NHPR's Word of Mouth and KCRW's Design and Architecture; moderated panels or addressed audiences at the Architectural League of New York, the Canadian Consulate in New York, the AIA San Francisco, the New Ways of Working Network, SXSW Interactive, and Postopolis; and spoken to corporate audiences at Liz Claiborne Inc and Carnegie Fabrics, among others.
With his wife, Davina Pardo, he is producing and writing a documentary film about a farmhouse in Japan.
A New York City native, he studied English and architecture history at Amherst College, and human geography at the University of Toronto.
Email: andrew (at) andrewblum.net
