Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Anxiety, Culture and Commerce

Is the museum store a distraction or an enticement?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Beyond Gorgeous

Is prettiness a distraction? Yes, when it comes to taking Alexander Girard seriously.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Architecture Without Signs

If you can't find the entrance, there's a problem with the architecture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

What It Costs (to Buy a Bench, to Extend a Curb)

Participatory budgeting lets communities put their own urban priorities in order.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Portlandia + Timelessness

No better place to consider what looks timeless now than downtown Portland.

Alexandra Lange|Slideshows

Instagramming Around Australia

Lessons from contemporary Australian architecture, plus what I saw on Instagram.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

After the Museum: The Tumblr

To create metamuseum.tumblr.com, a multi-museum, multi-curator Tumblr @MADMuseum, I saw it as a kind of curatorial game: Show Me What You’ve Got.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Why Bernadette Fox Is Scary

The heroine of Where’d You Go, Bernadette is an award-winning female architect. Don’t envy her life.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Kicked A Building Lately?

That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Reintroducing the Tilletts

If you are interested in textile design, mid-century style, or creative partnerships, I would urge you to go visit “The World of D.D. and Leslie Tillett” at the Museum of the City of New York.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

3rd Annual Holiday Card Review

Holiday card designs for 2012 reveal the social media preoccupations of their buyers, whether it is Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram or old-fashioned (perhaps Downton Abbey-inspired?) stationery.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Knolling Your Polling Place

Knolling your polling place: for the next election, a little spatial organization would go a long way.