When Bill Pedersen, FAIA, co-founder and principal design partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox, bought a three-acre piece of land on Shelter Island, New York in 1981, “Things were a little different on the island,” he wryly recalls. He means that one could buy a waterfront plot with views of Long Island Sound and Coecles Harbor without the excessive fanfare or money that nowadays accompany real estate purchases. In the intervening years, the island has grown more expensive to live on and crowded with visitors during the summer, but Pedersen has created a residence that, nested in the earth and angled to create uninterrupted views of nature, is protected from those changes. Read more…
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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