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Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley

Writers Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley saw this coming. They knew a global pandemic was entirely plausible, even likely. But the couple couldn’t have guessed that they would be wrapping up a book on quarantine architecture in the midst of one.

The writers approach the topic of quarantine from different perspectives. Manaugh is the author of and the long-running BLDGBLOG (He is also a former Dwell editor.) Twilley contributes to the and cohosts She is currently working on a book about refrigeration.

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