Geoff Manaugh
is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City (2016). Since 2004, Manaugh has been the author of BLDGBLOG (“building blog”), exploring architecture and the built environment through an expansive lens, including technology, literature, crime, history, archaeology, acoustics, science fiction, warfare, subterranean space, the planetary sciences, and more. In 2009, The BLDGBLOG Book, based on the blog, was released by Chronicle Books.