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 is the program director for the New Cities Foundation and the editor at large of Next American City magazine. She is at work on a book about comparative urban policy called Vision, Power, Change.
2010
Program Director, New Cities Foundation
Host, Metro Matters podcast
Rutgers University-Camden, Guest Lecturer
2009
Editor & Publisher, Next American City
Brooklyn Modern, 2nd Edition
Instructor, Drexel University, Great Works Symposium
Guest Lecturer, University of Windsor Distinguished Speakers Series
Board member, Washington Square West Civic Association
Instructor, The Public School (for Architecture)
2008
Editor, Next American City
Instructor, Drexel University, Great Works Symposium
Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design, Rizzoli
Editor in Charge, Architectural Record Houses 2008
Keynote speaker, Creative Cities Summit 2.0
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
1999
Horace Mann School
1981
Born in Manhattan