Geoff Manaugh

Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG (bldgblog.com) and the New York Times-bestselling book A Burglar's Guide to the City. A Burglar's Guide was optioned for television by CBS Studios in 2016. Manaugh is former director of Studio-X NYC at Columbia University. In addition to curating exhibitions for the Nevada Museum of Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and USC Libraries, he has lectured internationally at the Bauhaus Universität, the Australian National Architecture Conference, the Bartlett, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, SCI-Arc, and Harvard, among others. Manaugh covers urbanism, technology, landscape, and design for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Domus, New Scientist, and many other publications. He is currently working on a book about the history and future of quarantine with writer Nicola Twilley to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.