Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Not Afraid of Color

Alice Rawsthorn and I think alike on the Le Corbusier palette.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In T: The Zootopian

In early August I had the pleasure of traveling (by plane, train, local train and subway) to Sonneberg, Germany to interview toy designer Renate Müller.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

This is A Thrill...

Design Research reviewed in the New York Times.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Yummy!

I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition Appetite, curated by Alexander Tochilovsky at the Herb Lubalin Center at Cooper Union, not least because it was bite-sized.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Masdar: So Many Questions

I was not planning to post anything about Sukkah City. It all just looked like an architecture studio: so much effort, such worked-over results, and an inability to see the forest for the trees.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Rendering v. Reality in Sukkah City

I was not planning to post anything about Sukkah City. It all just looked like an architecture studio: so much effort, such worked-over results, and an inability to see the forest for the trees.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Still-Expanding Airport

In 1958, after some failed attempts by the Saarinen office to make a stop-motion film of their model for Dulles Airport, Eero Saarinen called upon his old friend Charles Eames to help him out.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Shall I Complain About the New Yorker?

Once again, The New Yorker embarrasses itself by not fully contextualizing design in it's Style issue.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

NYT Opinionator: If These Walls Could Talk

ABC's Modern Family presents three different families, each defined by the design of their living rooms.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

My Franzen, Freedom Review

Here I present to you my page-by-page review of Franzen's Freedom.

Alexandra Lange|Opinions

If These Walls Could Talk

On the ABC sitcom Modern Family, three different families are visually defined by their living rooms.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Make It Bigger

Anthropologie, the latest tenant of the Design Research Headquarters, simply doesn't get it.