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Edward Lifson Full time 2007-2008 Photo by Doug Cogger
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Edward Lifson is
the producer and host of “Hello Beautiful”. This public radio
show, based in Chicago, explores architecture, design, and urban
issues every Sunday morning and has a loyal and growing audience.
His goal is to convince an ever widening group of people that
they should care about the built environment. Edward believes
design and our reactions to it can bring more people together.
He feels journalists have a responsibility to bring conversations
about design to the public in an interesting and revealing way.
As a result, he does not simply review built structures on his
show, but speaks about projects that are in the planning stage,
related issues such as public spaces, landscape, transportation,
and environment, and important preservation issues. He hopes
that his show will equip people to not only have opinions about
architecture and design, but to get involved to work for better
results in the physical environment that impacts them. He has
been a war correspondent and was the National Public Radio Bureau
Chief in Berlin while the city was being rebuilt after the Wall
came down. As a fellow, Edward will study the history and theory of architecture as well as urban planning and landscape architecture principles while he is at the GSD. He is particularly interested in learning more about sustainable design. When he returns from the Fellowship, he plans to create a new national show about architecture, design and culture for public radio.
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