Christine Cipriani

I am a writer and historian with a specialty in architecture. My first book, Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape (Metropolis), coauthored with Peter McMahon, allowed me to apply my professional passions to a place I have loved since childhood. My next book, The Critic: Ada Louise Huxtable and the Building of Modern America (Norton, March 2027), traces the inspiring life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential critics. Other work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Dwell, the Architect's Newspaper, Architect, ArchitectureBoston, Metropolis, and Architectural Record.

Earlier in my career, I worked as an editor at four major publishers spanning trade, academic, and travel books. Each house contributed in a different way to my sense of a great narrative, and my international travels—including three years at Penguin India—exposed me to a thrilling variety of architecture. 

I studied English literature at the University of Michigan (B.A.), Oxford (junior year), and Yale (M.A.), and architectural history at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Raised in upstate New York, I live near Boston with my husband and daughter.