Eve Kahn

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Experience

Freelance Writer specializing in architecture, design and preservation: 1987– Present. Over 500 articles contributed to publications including The New York Times (House & Home, Arts & Leisure, Travel, City, Escapes, Weekend, Styles sections), Travel + Leisure, Art & Auction, House & Garden, Food & Wine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal (Architecture Critic, 1991–95), and The Washington Post.

Contributing Editor and/or Staff Book Reviewer
House Beautiful (2006–), I.D. (International Design, 2002–09), ICON (World Monuments Fund’s quarterly, 2003–08), Style 1900 (2000–08), Interiors (1998–2001), Traditional Building and Period Homes (1988–)

Based in Budapest, 1995–99

Education

Harvard University
A.B. in Romance Languages and Literatures, 1984; Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. Semester at Sorbonne, full scholarship

Awards

National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Grant, 1988

Hallowed Ground: Lost Cemeteries of Queens
Exhibit about widespread destruction and occasional preservation of tiny family-owned graveyards, shown at the Municipal Art Society and Queens Historical Society

Miscellany

Advisory Board Member
The Historic Districts Council, Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America (ICA&CA), and the Manhattan Hungarian Network

Editor/Essayist
2009: Exhibit texts, Zsolnay Art Pottery (Forbes Galleries), How They Lived: Photos of Hungarian Jewish Life (92nd Street Y); 2007: I.D. magazine, ornament theme issue (Folio 2007 gold medal, editorial excellence, B2B design magazines); 2006: Zsolnay Art Pottery: The Gyugyi Collection; 2002: Chrysler Design Awards; 2001: Graphic Design History, Budapest 1900-2000, Parliament House of Hungary; 1997: Budapest Then and Now

Juror
I.D. Annual Design Review (2004–09), ICA&CA/Arthur Ross Awards (2004), Alliance for Downtown N.Y. (1996), justice-theme garden in L.A. (1995), Harvard Graduate School of Design studio (1994), American Institute of Architects (AIA)/CT awards (1993)

Symposium Panelist
Portsmouth (N.H.) Music Hall: “Reimagining an American Treasure” (2008); “Bronx Zoo Lion House Restoration” (2008); Museum of the City of New York: “The Bungalows of Rockaway” (2007); HDC: “Evolution of Sickness: New York Hospital Architecture” (2006), “Dead in New York: Cemetery Preservation” (2005), “Working with the Press” (2004); ICA&CA: “From the Offices” (2005), “Of Our Time: Changing Attitudes in Historic Preservation” (2004); AIA NY: “Architecture and Fashion” (1994), AIA New Jersey (1994)

Fluent in French, working knowledge of Spanish and Hungarian