Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Would You Like Words With That?

A meditation on how we shop, organize and get rid of stuff online.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Welcome to the Hall of Femmes

How should we celebrate women in design, past, present, future?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Jane Austen, Architect?

Why is Austen next to Ballard on the Designers & Books lists?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Let’s Go! World’s Fairs of the 1930s

"Designing Tomorrow" at the National Building Museum showcases the optimisim, futurism, and dreamy design ideas of the 1930s.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

New Apple HQ, 1957

Wouldn't it be more radical for Apple to move back to town?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

An Atlas of Possibility

The Institute for Urban Design's By the City/For the City project provokes crowd-sourced possibilities for New York's future.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On GOOD: Why Are Car Seats So Poorly Designed?

If you want parents to use public transportation, first you have to fix the car seat.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Vicarious Thrifting, via Twitter

On the lively, effective and erudite thrifting community on Twitter.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Manhattan Museum Musical Chairs

Bye, bye Museum of American Folk Art. Hello the forward march of the Modern.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Science Gets Around to Architecture

Why are we still privileging scientific studies over visual thinking?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

In T: High Fiber

"Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010" opens new territory in midcentury design – upholstery – and shows us more than a few new female designers.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

The Only Thing There’s Just Too Little Of

What parenthood and artistic endeavor have in common: not enough time.