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Edward Lifson has worked in Public Radio since the late 1980s. He has reported extensively on architecture, urbanism and culture, in addition to news and politics. He created and hosted a popular radio show in Chicago called "Hello Beautiful!" to explore urban architecture and design issues. Prior to that he was a correspondent for National Public Radio. In the US he covered urban affairs, politics, economics, labor and arts and culture. In 1996 he established the National Public Radio Bureau in Berlin, Germany. In Europe, Lifson covered the rebuilding of Berlin as a city and a national capital, European Union, post-Cold War politics, NATO, the launch of the euro, immigration issues, and Central Europe’s transition to democracy and capitalism. As a war correspondent he reported extensively for NPR from Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia before and during the war in Kosovo. [1]
Lifson's work has also been heard on the BBC and CNN and seen in Dwell magazine, The Architect's Newspaper and Metropolis.com.
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In addition to Berlin, he lived for many years in Paris, Florence, Italy and in England.[1]
Increasingly, his journalism focuses on what makes cities work and how they can be improved. His particular interests include public space, transportation and art; street furniture, landscaping, parks, civic buildings, sustainability, housing and preservation.
He created and hosted Hello Beautiful! on Chicago Public Radio until mid-2007.[4]
It was a popular and award-winning weekly radio program about Arts, Architecture and Culture.
A report of his on the impending auction of Mies van der Rohe's modernist masterpiece Farnsworth House on the Fox River in Plano, Illinois, caused people across America to donate money to preserve the house in its original location.[5] [6]
In 2007 he was a fellow in the USC/Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship in Los Angeles.
In 2007/8 he was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.[7]
He studied urban planning and design, histories and theories of architecture, landscape architecture and sustainability.
In 2008/9 he was an Annenberg Fellow in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California to study the Specialized Journalism of Architecture.
He conducted the last interview with the American writer, oral historian, actor and radio host Studs Terkel.[8]
He is working on a new national radio program about cities, architecture and design.
References
- ^ a b "Britany Salsbury, "Hello, Hello: Meet Edward Lifson, one of Chicago art's biggest boosters"". fNews-The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, February 2006.
- ^ "Edward Lifson, "All Aboard: Helmut Jahn's dynamic new supportive-housing facility brings green design and a new outlook on life to the Windy City", November 2008". Dwell.
- ^ "Edward Lifson, "Q&A: Preservationist Grahm Balkany on Chicago's Threatened Gropius Buildings", October 2009". Metropolis.
- ^ "Lisa Bertagnoli, "Loud silence on Vocalo", February 16, 2009". Chicago Business.
- ^ "Edward Lifson, "Farnsworth House, Modernist Icon, For Sale", December 12, 2003". NPR.
- ^ |title=Stevenson Swanson, “Preservationist Groups Use Donations to Win Bidding for Chicago-Area Landmark”, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec., 2003, p. 1 |publisher=ChicagoTribune}}
- ^ ""School of Design names Loeb fellowship class for 2007-08", September 13, 2007". HarvardGazette.
- ^ huffingtonpost.com/edward-lifson/studs-for-obama_b_137278.html "Edward Lifson, "Studs for Obama", October 23, 2008". Huffington Post.
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