Alexandra Lange

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Skating on the Edge of Taste with Warren Platner

Viewed today, the work of 70s and 80s interior designer Warren Platner seems just one reflection away from disco, one black room away from S&M. Each of his projects comes with the question, can he hold himself back? Can he convince us that …

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XL

On the High Museum of Art's tribute to John Portman, Atlanta’s ur-architect and greatest claim to urban influence.

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Look Again

When visiting the Eero Saarinen exhibit at Museum of the City of New York, be sure to look at the photographs from Look Magazine.

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See the USA

My husband and I took a three-week modern architecture tour of the Midwest.

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This Is Just To Say

From the Florence Knoll Bassett papers: congratulations on their marriage from Ray and Charles.

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Stuffed

We are hosting our first Thanksgiving, so I'm too busy thinking about food.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Stuffed

We are hosting our first Thanksgiving, so I'm too busy thinking about food.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Another New York

Every time I get an issue of New York Magazine lately I ask myself: is Adam Moss turning it into a men’s magazine?

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Texan Capitals

I don’t usually like to write about architecture that isn’t there, but I can't resist commenting on Zaha Hadid's MAXXI and Robert A. M. Stern Architects' design for the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

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D/R on WGBH

My last post about D/R before the book comes out next September.

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Paper Revelations

Reading a lot of architecture criticism for those same classes, I also start to develop a running mental list of the writerly tics of critics like Paul Goldberger.

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Smaller Wonder: Brooklyn Children's Museum

My first encounter with the expanded Brooklyn Children’s Museum made me ask several questions.