Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

When Shopping Was Sociable

Design Research and Apple, a comparison of the two stores that have brought design to the masses.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Modern Houses and Doomed P.M.s

In Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer Ewan McGregor sleuths instead of writes.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Damned Icons

Terminal 3 sits there, empty, next to JetBlue’s so-so Terminal 5, as an object lesson about how preservation and redevelopment have to operate in tandem.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Simple Pleasures

In all these new parks, I feel like I am searching for atmosphere, a designed quality above and beyond the ordinary spaces for children, and I am not finding it.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Mid-C Decor Striptease

Don’t you love that Matthew Weiner is now teasing us — on Mad Men, of course, what else — with period decor?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Design Research (The Book) Has Landed

Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes, by Jane Thompson and me, has finally arrived.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On DO: Lunch with the Critics

Please weigh in on Mark Lamster and my new Design Observer feature, "Lunch with the Critics," in which we observe the new Lincoln Center.

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Culture War Begins at Home

I got this polite but slightly alarming email in response to my Opinionator piece "Easier Living, By Design," on the influence of Mary and Russel Wright.

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Archpaper Review: Our Cities Ourselves

Does one size fit all, even when it is oh-so-hot bikes and buses?

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NYT Opinionator: Easier Living Through Design

The easier living the Wrights described — both in the book and their lines of domestic products — was revolutionary.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Better Living by Design

In 1950, industrial designers Mary and Russel Wright published the Guide to Easier Living, a revolutionary handbook for the modern home.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Culture Shed: Where’s the Neighborhood?

CultureGrrl offers a critique of the NEA grant for Culture Shed, the Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group design for a Kunsthalle with retractable roofs over at Hudson Yards.