Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hung Ceilings: Mystery Solved

Through the wonders of Google maps, I see 300 East 42nd Street, built in 1963 and designed by William Lescazeis a glass curtain-wall building directly across the street.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hung Ceilings

Mad Men returns, and now it's time to speculate on the evolution of Peggy’s hair and the meaning of Betty’s dress choices

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Time to Move On

A very nice house in Montauk embodies the most recent cliches in architecture: floating staircases, pocket doors, and glass floors.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Up in the Air

For spires in New York, height doesn’t matter, style does.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Heavens

I finally managed to visit back-to-back versions of my idea of heaven: A Single Man — Tom Ford’s tribute to 1960s style — and Dia:Beacon

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Out of Love with Piano

After reading Reading Martin Filler’s review of Renzo Piano’s proposed addition to the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, I was struck again by how Piano’s critical reception seems to have curdled.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Below Black Rock

While the plaza around the CBS Building in Manhattan has always seemed perverse, it is now made worse with the addition of a bank.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Personality of Parks

Until Pier 6 at Brooklyn Bridge Park opened, my only experience of parks as a parent had been of neighborhood parks

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Fix the Car Seat

Having just returned from a vacation where the logistics of the car seat were a primary part of trip planning, I have a plea on behalf of all parents, and a challenge for industrial and car designers: FIX THE CAR SEAT.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Whatever Happened to Architecture Critique?

Sometimes it feels like everything is shrinking: the magazines, the word counts, the outlets, and especially the critics.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Bag Ladies

John Ptak explores the history of the handbag after seeing a photo of 1920 woman, who couldn’t seem to put one down.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

THE Bite THATS Rite

A photograph by John Szarkowski from Looking After Louis Sullivan at the Art Institute.