Allison Arieff

{{short description|American writer on design}}

Allison Arieff (born October 29, 1966Adam Bluestein, [http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a605.asp So What Do You Do, Allison Arieff? (Interview)], mediabistro, July 29, 2003. Retrieved 2012-03-05. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031210143658/http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a605.asp|date=2003-12-10}}) is the Editorial Director of Print for the MIT Technology Review. An American writer and editor, she was, most recently, Senior Editor of City Monitor - The New Statesman. She was previously editorial director for the urban planning and policy think tank, SPUR (the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association).{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/10/a-conversation-with-allison-arieff-writer-and-editor-on-sustainability/246440/|title=A Conversation With Allison Arieff, Writer and Editor on Sustainability|first=Nicholas|last=Jackson|website=The Atlantic |publisher=|accessdate=3 November 2016|date=2011-10-11}} From 2007-2020, she wrote a regular column about architecture, design, cities and technology for the Opinion section of The New York Times.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/allison-arieff|title=Allison Arieff|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 2019}}

Early in her career, she held editorial positions at Random House, Oxford University Press and Chronicle Books. In 2000, Arieff helped found the architecture and design magazine Dwell, and in 2002, following the departure of founding editor Karrie Jacobs, she was promoted to editor-in-chief. During her tenure the magazine expanded its readership, and received a number of awards, including a National Magazine Award for general excellence. She left the magazine in 2006. She has been an editor at Sunset, worked at Good magazine and was a senior content lead for the design and consulting firm IDEO from 2006 to 2008.{{cite web|url=https://www.good.is/contributors/allison-arieff|title=Allison Arieff|publisher=|accessdate=3 November 2016}}{{cite web |title=Sunset Names Allison Arieff Editor-at-Large - Time Warner Inc. |url=http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2008/05/05/sunset-names-allison-arieff-editor-at-large |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919171346/http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2008/05/05/sunset-names-allison-arieff-editor-at-large |archive-date=2016-09-19 |accessdate=3 November 2016 |publisher=}}

Arieff holds a B.A. in history from University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.A. in art history from University of California, Davis. She completed her PhD coursework in American studies at New York University.