Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Things of Beauty

Saul Bass matchbook covers are about the most beautiful things I have seen in some time.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Playground Apps

I wonder if the young, male inventors of foursquare haven’t missed a big market: moms.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Tearing Down

At the end of a session at the Architectural League's On Criticism reading group, the non-journalists in attendance began to ask the journalists whether architecture critics had any power.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Critical Mass

Not to be overly self-referential, but I have to highlight this paragraph of Places editor Nancy Levinson’s response to the comments on her response to my Nicolai Ouroussoff piece.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

House Upon House

There’s now much more to drool over online regarding Herzog & de Meuron’s 12 gabled VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Not A Learning Experience

The Privileges finally gives a real satire of almost-present day New York City, in which money is discussed and no one has to learn their lesson.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Bluestockings Unite!

My new favorite word, from Virginia Heffernan’s NYT Magazine column this weekend: marmish.

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Mad Swatches

One of the aspects of Alexander Girard’s career that is most newsworthy, is the restoration and reopening of the J. Irwin and Xenia Miller House.

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The (Architectural) Anthologist

After some digressions weird and wonderful, the Nicholson Baker I loved from The Mezzanine and U and I and Room Temperature seems to be back, cranky and at sea and procrastinating.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On DO: Why Ouroussoff Is Not Good Enough

Well, it took me about six month to work up to this, but here goes: If the death of the architecture critic is nigh, we really need better ones than Ouroussoff occupying the top spots.

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Welcome to Fort Brooklyn

Let us sincerely hope that the Atlantic Terminal Entrance in Brooklyn, a gateway to the LIRR and the hub’s many subways, marks the end of empty transport monumentality.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Coloring Book

I loved Jane Campion’s film, despite my feeling that it might not be true, and it must surely be anachronistic.