I’m Reuben, a multimedia journalist with a background in design. I’m interested in very big systems, the people shaping them, and the people they shape. I work as a writer, photographer and editor
In Europe’s driest region, a vast plastic sea covers an agricultural system built on intensity and innovation. But the cracks in Almería’s miracle are growing, too
There are new audiences to be won on TikTok, but few new revenue streams
Construction in the San Rafael Valley began September 16, a move sharply criticized by environmental groups
A surprising amount can be achieved just by letting the body acclimatise
An estimated five million people attended “No Kings Day” protests across the United States on October 18, 2025, likely making it the largest day of protest in American history
”We’ve had two 100-year storms in a week,” a former mayor told me
On the night of August 7, 2024, 10,000 people gathered in Walthamstow to quash a threatened riot against an asylum centre, part of a wave of unrest sweeping the country
On August 25, 2025, a major dust storm hit Phoenix, breaking weeks of dangerous heat with 0-mile visibility, lashing rain, and blackouts.
The city’s six anti-aircraft flak towers have become backdrop to climbing walls, play parks, and an aquarium
A repeat collaboration
Among the mourners, surprised at the depth of their own grief
Along its dead-straight line of 400 arches, the environment has been bent, or bent itself, to the aqueduct
Project Plum Grove in Mui Tsz Lam, Hong Kong, by CUHK
Thoravej 29 by Pihlmann Architects in Copenhagen, Denmark
Learning from the ‘additive architecture’ of Jørn Utzon, a community centre for Syrian refugees in Turkey provides social infrastructure in a fortified shell
A new school in one of Tanzania’s former refugee settlements beats the heat for students and the public alike
Amid Catalonia’s worsening droughts, Batlleiroig Arquitectura has reclaimed public spaces from cars while preserving precious water
The remodelling of the lower floors of an Italian town hall into a café recalibrates the building’s relationship to the city
Indian rising stars A Threshold build a critical bridge from private commissions to public projects
Material Cultures combine design with research and education to engender a transformation in architectural production
NWLND take a razor to complex spatial problems and derive sharp, strategic solutions
The Feminist City with Leslie Kern
Sofia Karim’s Architecture at the ‘Hinterlands of Human Experience’
Manplan Gets its Moment
Steele Fellow in Investigative Business Journalism
The Reynolds Center
2025–26
Digital Editor
The Architectural Review
2023–25
Production Assistant
BBC Maestro
2023
Production Assistant
The World Around
2022
President
ARCSOC, the University of Cambridge Architecture Society
2022–23
Founder and Co-host
Talking Volumes
2020–22
Video and Podcast Production
Adobe Premiere, Audition, After Effects, Apple Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro
Graphic Design and Production
Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Autocad, Rhino
Photography
Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop
Content Management and Analytics
WordPress, Google Analytics, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Campaigns, Shopify, Upland Adestra
Web Development
GitHub, VS Code, Claude Code, HTML, CSS, JS
Full U.K. driving license
M.A. Investigative Journalism
Arizona State University
2025–26
B.A. Architecture
University of Cambridge
2020–23
State schools in Brighton, U.K.; nerdy grades
