Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Dress Your Family in Formica and Faux Bois

The materials of architecture and interiors in the fashions of Schiaparelli and Prada.

Observed|Shameless Promotions

Women, Equity, Architecture

Parlour, a new Australian site with the tagline"Women, Equity, Architecture", has a dual project: creating a forum for discussion of and opportunities for women in architecture, and reporting on research, scholarship and the history of …

Alexandra Lange|Books

The Mother of Us All

Reyner Banham on Esther McCoy: "She speaks as she finds, with sympathy and honesty, and relevantly to the matter at hand." Could there be a better definition of the role of the critic?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Against Kickstarter Urbanism

You can Kickstart an edible spoon, but not a city.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Fixing South Street Seaport: Is New Architecture Enough?

Fighting over Ben Thompson's postmodernist landmark Pier 17 at South Street Seaport. Should it stay or should it go?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Carlo Scarpa, Quilter

Olivetti and Doges: How Carlo Scarpa updated the Venetian treasure chest.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Frank Lloyd Wright + Katniss Everdeen

On photographing architecture as sculpture and telling stories via architecture.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

‘Deco Japan’ + Designing Women

The Japan Society's new exhibition "Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945" displays the surprising globalism of this little-known period in Japanese design, when pent-up post-1923-earthquake desires for new goods and new …

Alexandra Lange|Essays

City of Shoes: Is Urbanism Scalable?

Can Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh scale his online shoe business into a city?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Reassembling the American Dream

"Foreclosed" at the Museum of Modern Art asks what people really like about suburban living. And then, Can they do that with less?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Downton Abbey: Fell In Love With a House

Downton Abbey, for all its melodrama and dropped teacups, is really the story of falling in love with a house.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Round Thermostats and Crystal Lanterns, Revisited

Old designs, new tricks: updates on lawsuits filed against the new Nest thermometer, and on behalf of midcentury masterpiece Manufacturers Hanover.