Andrew Blum is an independent architecture writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a contributing editor at Metropolis and Wired magazines and his writing about architecture, urbanism, design, technology, art and travel has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Business Week, Travel & Leisure, Architectural Record, Print and Slate, among other publications. He studied literature and architecture history at Amherst College, and human geography at the University of Toronto.