Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Want to Make an Architect Cry?

Want to Make an Architect Cry? Give him (or her, but she’s less likely to mind) Robert A. M. Stern’s latest monograph, which, at 600+ pages, covers just his last five years of work.

Alexandra Lange|Interviews

Casey Jones

Interview with Casey Jones, director of design excellence and the arts for the U.S. General Services Administration.

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Making A List...

The New Yorker has a rather expansive round-up of lists online and I particularly like Judith Thurman’s memorable fashion statements of 2009.

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Playing House

The three living rooms on Modern Family are used as a structuring device, luing us into the character of each respective family.

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In a F.O.G.

I am thinking about adding films to my undergraduate class at NYU, namely Sketches of Frank Gehry.

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Seasons Greetings

Is there anything less contemporary than a Christmas card?

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Where Have All the Type Geeks Gone?

Set in Helvetica, the title for Up In the Air looks plain wrong.

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UN, Now and Then

On the United Nations five-year renovation, systems and sustainability upgrade and preservation effort.

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Dumbing Down DIY

DIY Anni Albers Strainer and Paper Clips Jewelry Kit is dumbing down the DIY movement.

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DoubleX: Kid Made Modern Reviewed

My review for Todd Oldham's Kid Made Modern for DoubleX is much less happy happy, joy joy than most of the other coverage.

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Making Kids Modern: Or is it Their Moms?

An informal experiement aims to determine whether or not kids have an interest in the likes of Alexander Calder or Alexander Girard.

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DWR = D/R?

Like D/R in the late 1970s, DWR is suffering from over-expansion, loss of specialness, and the lack of a leader with personal design vision.