Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

No Rest at the Last Supper

"Leonardo's Last Supper: A Vision by Peter Greenaway" is indeed a dud: cheese-tastic, bombastic, didactic.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Little Boxes

AMAC Plastic Boxes are back at the Container Store: a rainbow classic sold at Design Research, part of the MoMA design collection, and starting at $0.39.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Networks Before the Internet

A new exhibit at the Noguchi Museum shows how small and intertwined were the worlds of mid-century art, design and architecture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Sans Serif Seasons Greetings

The market in "modern" holiday cards grows every year, but the choices--Helvetica, brown and baby blue, color blocks--still seem dated.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Criticism Kerfuffle 2010

There are people trying to write their way to a future of architecture criticism. But it isn't just the writing that's the problem.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

New City Reader: Sidewalk Sale

How Atlantic Yards became Barclays Center and disappeared from Brooklyn in the process.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

My Marimekko Uniform

Wearing Marimekko is like being a walking work of art.

Alexandra Lange|Interviews

Dan Wood

A conversation with WORKac architect Dan Wood about design, food and cities.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

You Have to Pay for the Public Design

Does a preference for design for private consumption threaten our public space?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Ornament & Time

Another loss to the digital age: the architectural clock.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Super 8

Is BIG's 8 House just another version of the 'burbs?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Keeping Faith

A church and a cemetery reawaken my faith in a higher architectural standard.