Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

“I Have Seen the Future”: Designer as Showman

The exhibition ldquo;I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America,” hits all the high spots of industrial design within a single man’s oeuvre.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Dot Supreme

On the enduring power of the simplest shape, from corporations to children’s books.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Shopping With Sandro, and Other Tumblr Delights

Digitizing the Miller House Collection, and other museum and corporate visual archives on Tumblr.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Having Fun at the Museum

Blocks, rocket ships, playgrounds and balls: the hidden meaning of playthings at the Museum of Modern Art.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Let’s Talk About Women in Architecture

A panel on Women in Design, and questions about whether such panels should exist.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Just Keep Typing

An excerpt from the new book Breakthrough! Proven Strategies to Overcome Creative Block and Spark Your Imagination that involves Post-It notes, legal pads and baking. 

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Someone Else’s Shangri La

An exhibition of Doris Duke's Honolulu mansion, Shangri La, proves a “Spanish-Moorish-Persian-Indian complex” works as theater.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Hiking the Museum

Ennead Architects’ new Natural History Museum of Utah works to make natural history seem like the ongoing process of discovery that it is, layering geology and topography, paleontology and interactivity.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Obama’s New Fonts

Obama bets on American nostalgia, shrinking Gotham and picking a script.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Shape of Lunch

"Lunch Hour NYC," a new exhibition at the New York Public Library, defines the midday meal as an urban invention.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Charismatic Megafauna of Design

Identifying the "charismatic megafauna" of design and the critical uses of their popularity.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Introducing Strelka Press

On Strelka Press, a new "digital first" publisher of longform architecture and design criticism.