Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Write What You Know

My handwriting should be a font. That’s what everyone has been saying since I was about 12, and while I agree it is true, it never seems like a compliment to me.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

More! Women! Architects!

A lot of attention — in Chicago, at least — has been given to the fact that Aqua is the tallest building in the world designed by a woman.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Suburban Design

Lester Beall, was always my favorite of the cadre of mid-century corporate identity designers for the color, energy and sheer American-ness of his design.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Pay No Attention to Me

In one of those strange topical coincidences, this Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section has a profile of Iwan Baan, a Dutch architectural photographer who is the post-Stoller-Shulman-Molitor savior of architectural photography.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Buildings That Aren't There

Photography needs to prove itself again as an interpretive medium for architecture somewhere this side of art.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hands-On: The Gropius Touch

I couldn’t believe no one else had noticed that Ati Gropius Johansen was coming to the MoMA, and it seemed like a piece of history.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

A Real Modern Monument

Peter Behrens’ AEG Turbine Hall is still in use and is still as striking as the day it was completed — so shouldn't that be the goal for every building?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Love and Flatware

A scene from Sleepless In Seattle makes me wonder about the idea that shared taste = true love.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Trip Down Memory Lane

In my ongoing project to give my son as much of a 1970s childhood as possible, we recently ran across all of the 1968 animated film, Yellow Submarine.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Inappropriation

This Urchin Pouf is an expensive contemporary design object I truly adore, hence my shock at seeing an extremely cheap version in the new CB2 catalog.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Yuck Factor

Watch District 9 as a palate cleanser after the visual feast of Avatar.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Snip Snip Snip

The Museum of Arts & Design’s Slash: Paper Under the Knife, is the must-see of the winter season.