Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

It's Not Just Me

Way back in the beginnings of blogging in July, I praised the French film Summer Hours.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On DO: Skating on the Edge of Taste

The American Restaurant in Kansas City, designed by Warren Platner, is subject of a long essay on that architect and interior designer’s career.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

I Heart Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable is still the most knowledgeable, elegant, thoughtful critic out there.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

About A Boy

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is one of my favorite contemporary novels, but Manhood for Amateurs made me like him much less.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Size M

Nicolai Ouroussoff, Paul Goldberger, and Ada Louise Huxtable may live here in New York, but in general they have become too big to pay attnetion to the small stuff.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Annotated Avatar

Avatar is itself a hack, James Cameron is less auteur, more sci fi magpie.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Should We Boycott the New Barnes?

More ethical quandaries about buildings and food.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

What the Cooper-Hewitt Needs: More Design, Less Talk

My six suggestions for how to fix the National Design Museum.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

What Makes Architecture Useful?

At Experimenta Design 2011, the buildings of Lisbon make the best argument for the ongoing usefulness of good design.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Design for Girls: Put A Heart On It

If you give my baby daughter a purse, couldn't it look a little more like mine?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Well-Tempered Environment

Water features, old trees, food trucks. Three elements of the architecture of outdoor civic life in North Texas.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Critics Critical Criticism

Meta-criticism all over the blogosphere (but why only about books?)