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Arriving editor makes jump from Doyenne to Dormers.


JESSE Brink, newly named editor-in-chief of ]LA Architect magazine, is about to experience a whole new kind of pressure.

Brink is making the jump to a narrowly read, 5,500-circulation publication from Martha Stewart Living Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and a television show featuring entertaining and home decorating guru Martha Stewart. Both the magazine and the television program focus on the domestic arts.  (circulation 1.8 million), where he was a senior staff writer.

While the 31-year-old Pennsylvania native will be out from under the stress associated with the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 publishing world, and the glare associated with a high-profile boss on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955.  of being sentenced, he will now be responsible lot writing nearly all the content for LA Architect.

It's not a prospect he relishes.

"It's not that I don't like writing, but it takes up so much time." Brink said. "It's the best way to establish the tone, the voice of the magazine, I haven't developed a stable of writers yet."

LA Architect, a glossy bi-monthly published by Balcony Media Inc., features how-to articles for professionals seeking to build their practices, as well as reviews of architecture books and projects. It claims a readership of about 22,000 design professionals.

After receiving a bachelor's in history from Haverford College Haverford College

Private liberal arts college in Haverford, Pa., near Philadelphia. Founded by Quakers in 1833 as a men's college, it became coeducational in 1980. It is consistently ranked as one of the top U.S. colleges.
, outside Philadelphia, in 1994, and a master's in medieval art and architecture from the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells,  in 1995, Brink diverted his career toward the modern and worked in media relations for Ferguson & Shamamian Architects LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol .

"With a master's, you can't gel the real jobs in museums. You need a doctorate," Brink said. "And I ran out of money to go to school."

Writing was the part of his job Brink liked best, so in 1998 he took a position as staff writer at Martha Stewart Living and spent the next five years there.

"The nice thing about the place was, because (Stewart) had this wide-ranging curiosity, I got to write about everything from wedding etiquette to the history of the wastepaper waste·pa·per  
n.
Discarded paper.
 basket to a natural history of the moon," Brink said.

Brink, who is single, lives in Culver City and enjoys restoring cars.
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Title Annotation:People; LA Architect magazine
Author:Myerhoff, Matt
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Apr 19, 2004
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