Andrew Blum is an American author and journalist.

He writes about architecture, design, technology, urbanism, art, and travel.

His writings have been published in various mainstream magazines such as Wired; Newsweek; the Wall Street Journal; the New Yorker; the New York Times; Vanity Fair; BusinessWeek; Slate; and Popular Science.

[1][2] He was born in New York City.

He received a degree in literature from Amherst College and another in human geography from the University of Toronto.