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Brooklyn Modern
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/ask-about-brooklyn-architecture/
This week, through Friday, Diana Lind will be answering questions about architecture and the interior design of Brooklyn brownstones.
Ms. Lind is the author of “Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design,” which takes a look at the innovative architecture and interiors from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill to Ditmas Park. She is also the editor in chief of Next American City magazine, a quarterly examination of urban issues, community activism, culture and politics. She was a freelance architecture and design writer for Architectural Record, Art + Auction, Plenty and other magazines.
Ms. Lind edited “Designing the Hamptons: Portraits of Interiors” (Edizioni Press, 2006) and founded the short-lived magazine, Work. She received her B.A. in English from Cornell and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia. Ms. Lind was born and raised in Manhattan, lived in Fort Greene for three years, and moved to Philadelphia this month.
Photographer of Brooklyn Modern (Rizzoli, 2008).
Diana Lind lives in Philadelphia where she is the editor of Next American City magazine. She is also a journalist whose writing has regularly appeared in Architectural Record and Art+ Auction. Her book, Brooklyn Modern, is in its second printing and Lind has been featured in a Q&A on NYTimes.com and an interview on Martha Stewart Living Radio, among other media outlets. She writes fiction in her spare time.
2008
Instructor, Drexel University
Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design, Rizzoli
Editor in Charge, Architectural Record Houses 2008
Winner, ACLU Stand Up for Freedom contest (co-creator, Sarah Kramer)
2007
Resident, Blue Mountain Center
Finalist, Iowa Review Award
2006
Columbia University, M.F.A., Creative Writing
Editor, Designing the Hamptons: Portraits of Interiors, Edizioni Press
2004
Founder, Work Magazine
Instructor, Columbia University Summer Session in Creative Writing
2003
Cornell University, B.A., English
2002
Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction
Einhorn Discovery Grant
1999
Horace Mann School
1981
Born in Manhattan