Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Where Have All the Windchimes Gone?

What is a beach rental coming to when the dishes are without fish?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A Return to Modern Roots

I finally got a chance to see the new North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, by Thomas Phifer & Partners, which opened this spring.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Diana Center & Architectural Bull----

Though rave reviews (Architect, Metropolis, previously New York) are rolling in for Weiss/Manfredi’s Diana Center at Barnard College, every review has praised two things that I quickly dismissed as the most basic architectural …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In Metropolis: Blue Sky Thinking

What’s really happening at Inland Steel?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Make Me A Mini Monograph

The thing I found most depressing was the sense I got that one could only write a book about designers that were already famous.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

“We Can’t Really Pay”

All of you print people who scorned bloggers but have moved into blogging and helm publications that “blog,” earth to you: You don’t pay.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Op Art Eye Candy

I’m lucky that I get to live with a Julian Stanczak painting, bought by my father-in-law in 1968, when Op Art was really something.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Pomo Time Machine

I’m writing more about Warren Platner, my favorite terribly wonderful or wonderfully terrible architect.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Girl Power?

I saw this photo in the New York Times this morning and thought that Carly Fiorina’s campaign poster seemed kind of… girly.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

AIA Guide, Family Style

Page 627, upper right corner, of the new AIA Guide mentions my husband, Mark Dixon.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Marigold, Goldenrod, Egg Yolk

I think of this color yellow as being so 1960, like Kodak Carousel boxes, made famous all over again by Mad Men.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

My .02 on the Whitney

Everyone has taken their shot at outrage regarding the Whitney's move to a Renzo Piano building at the base of the High Line.