Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Art Matters to Architecture

In Indianapolis, a restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see its Brutalist home as its architect intended: with color!

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Lunch With The Critics: Third-Annual Year-End Awards

Idiosyncratic awards bestowed on architecture, design and media.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Bad Taste True Confessions: Erté

True confessions about my own bad taste. I loved Erté. Did you?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

George Nelson in Two Dimensions

Ignore the Coconuts and Marshmallows, admire George Nelson's modular graphics.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Balthazar Korab, RIP

Tribute to architectural photographer Balthazar Korab, and a discussion of what made him different from contemporary Ezra Stoller.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Patterns of Houston

How do you critique the urbanism of Houston? Look for patterns.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

MoMA’s Modern Women

The Museum of Modern Art's new installation, "Designing Modern Women," could have made a bolder statement about the transformative role of women in 20th century design and architecture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Playing With Design: Fredun Shapur

Add Fredun Shapur to the pantheon of modern designers making winning and sculptural objects for children.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Last Post of 2009: Interview, Casey Jones

I interviewed the GSA’s newish head of Design Excellence, Casey Jones, earlier this month about the future of this government program to ensure better architecture for government buildings

Alexandra Lange|Essays

After Buildings

Looking over the 10 Best architecture lists for this year and this decade I notice one thing: no buildings.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Women

While Manohla Dargis rants about the lack of women in charge in Hollywood save for Nancy Meyers, Zaha Hadid similarly represents the dirth of women in architecture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Exciting Multi-Generational Moment

An essay and slideshow on the design of James Joyce’s Ulysses by my mother, Martha Scotford, appears on Design Observer, where I was recently made a contributing writer.