Kore was born to be an architect and planner. She was raised in a cooperative community in Roosevelt, New Jersey, that was initially established in the 1930s to house garment workers and their families and later became an artist colony. In this community, she learned about shared values, neighborly love, and the sense of well-being that comes from kinship with others and living in harmony with the natural environment. She also learned that neighborhoods could be beautiful, as the one she grew up in was inspired by the Bauhaus movement and designed by Louis Kahn.

 

Her teenage years were spent in the Middle East and Europe, where she graduated from the International School in Geneva, Switzerland.

 

After studying architecture at Cornell University and interior design at UCLA, she worked for Hirsch Bedner in Los Angeles and Warner and Grey in Santa Barbara, specializing in large commercial projects, including hotels, museums and country clubs.

 

After the birth of her son, she established ARCHITECTURE BEFRIENDING CHILDREN, specializing in environments for children,

including Santa Barbara‘s Kid’s World, Waldorf and Montecito Union Schools as well as private residences.

 

Since receiving her Master’s degree from California College of the Arts and graduating from the Environmental Forum of Marin, she has expanded the emphasis of her practice to include sustainable design and enlightened environments for home, business, school and community as well as the IMAGINE PLAYSHOPS.

 

Most recently, as a member of Marin Conservation League, she is addressing the current challenges facing the housing shortage in West Marin as well as other rural areas by revisiting Cluster Planning, designed and introduced by her father, urban planner Myron X. Feld, in 1959, as a prototype for new development in Raritan Township, NJ.