Diana Lind

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.

It’s every architect’s fantasy—getting carte blanche from a client. “It was excellent, and the first time for me,” Gus Wustemann says with evident glee, recalling how a couple contacted him after seeing his work in magazines, and offered complete creative license. The couple owned a 2,000-square-foot attic apartment in the historic quarter of Lucerne, Switzerland, and wanted it not just renovated, but transformed. Read more…

Philip Johnson was perhaps the most famous of the Harvard Five and the only one of these noted mid-century Modernists whose entire residentious oeuvre remains standing. That might soon change. The New Canaan Historical Review Committee’s demolition delay on his 1953 Alice Ball House, in New Canaan, Connecticut, expires today.   Read more…

Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors, & Design. Rizzoli, April 2008.