Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Design Adjacent

There’s a theme in the comments on my Design Observer piece on design blogs, The Vacuum of Enthusiasm, that there is little for me to say about.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In the Family

Beautiful work by my brother, Jeremy M. Lange, in the New York Times Sunday.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Moynihan on Design

At tonight’s lecture at D-Crit, Casey Jones, director of design excellence and the arts for the U.S. General Services Administration, quoted from Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, written in …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Texts Without Context

I keep thinking about Michiko Kakutani’s piece, Texts Without Context, that begins the discussion of what is being lost to culture by the supremacy of the web.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Reciting Modernist Architects

She hated it when Daddy made her recite modernist architects.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On DO: Design Blogs: The Vacuum of Enthusiasm

As part of my new strategy of writing the conversations that go on in my head, I critique design (and architecture, to some extent) blogs today on Design Observer.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Design Blogs: The Vacuum of Enthusiasm

I want to give full credit to the men and women who were there first, and established some of the most popular, provocative and adorable blogs. But now the launch moment is over. 

Alexandra Lange|Essays

My Favorite SANAA

It is thrilling that SANAA has won the 2010 Pritzker Prize for many reasons.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The World's Foremost Female Architect

Not to belabor the point, but Martin Filler takes up the discussion of female architects and puts Denise Scott-Brown in her rightful place.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Scarano's School for Scandal

What was so terrible about Robert Scarano’s practice is what is terrible about Scarano’s practice.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Times Op-Ed: Hole Earth Catalog

On the New York Times Op-Ed page today, my suggestion for an adopt-a-pothole program for New York City.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Doing Addition

When I tweeted yesterday on the rumored short list for the San Francisco MoMA expansion competition, Curbed SF called me sour!