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Next American City is a quarterly magazine about urban change, created by and for a new generation of urban thinkers.
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.
Joe and Lucianne Carmichael were thinking green even before Hurricane Katrina. As the owners of A Studio in the Woods (ASITW), an artists center southeast of New Orleans, they have lived in the bottomland hardwood forests for 30 years using minimal energy resources. They rarely use air conditioning, even during humid Gulf Coast summers, and they always line-dry their clothes. The Carmichaels’ goal is to provide a retreat where artists can hone their craft—and give a lesson in living with nature. “The highest guiding principal of A Studio in the Woods is the opportunity to learn,” Lucianne says. Read more…
Open for just three months during the summer, the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, located in London’s Kensington Gardens, could be a mere blip on the architecture radar. Yet it manages to garner the attention usually reserved for major projects. One can see why. Since its inception four years ago, the Pavilion has showcased work by some of the world’s most heralded architects for its annual architectural commission—Zaha Hadid (2000), Daniel Libeskind (2001), and Toyo Ito (2002). This year’s selection for the project, Oscar Niemeyer, Hon. AIA, is no exception. Ninety-five years old and busy at work, the Pritzker Prize winner continues to engage and excite the public with his designs. Read more…
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
When Paul Chan visited New Orleans for the first time in November 2006, the digital media and video artist expected to hear the sound of jackhammers and to see evidence of post-Katrina progress. He instead witnessed a far different scene: “The streets were still, as if time had been swept away along with the houses. Friends said the city now looks like the backdrop for a bleak science fiction movie. … I realized it didn’t look like a movie set, but the stage for a play I have seen many times. It was unmistakable. The empty road. The bare tree leaning precariously to one side with just enough leaves to make it respectable. The silence.”What the streetscape reminded him of was the setting in Samuel Beckett’s classic work Waiting for Godot. In the play, two men grapple with their nonsensical wait for a third; its philosophical reflection upon man’s uncertainty in the world seemed to Chan an apt metaphor for New Orleans’s precarious condition. Read more…