Theory + Criticism

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Approving of the Approval Matrix

Now that Bravo just bought the TV show based on New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix, who says criticism is dead?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

All in the Execution

Ian Baldwin's review of The Grid Book calls out the coffee-table book format and it's middlebrow achievements.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Please Join Us

I'm looking forward to the upcoming D-Crit Conference on April 30, 2010.

Mark Dery|Reviews

Bunker of Broken Dreams

Review of "Landscapes of Quarantine," Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. March 9–April 17, 2010.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Every Thing Design: Can I Play Too?

Alice Rawsthorn, whom I generally want to grow up to be, writes in today’s T about Every Thing Design, Dutch designer Irma Boom’s latest book based on the collections of the Museum of Design, Zurich.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Anthony Lane Fugs Too

Anthony Lane pans The Clash of the Titans.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Design Adjacent

There’s a theme in the comments on my Design Observer piece on design blogs, The Vacuum of Enthusiasm, that there is little for me to say about.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Texts Without Context

I keep thinking about Michiko Kakutani’s piece, Texts Without Context, that begins the discussion of what is being lost to culture by the supremacy of the web.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Doing Addition

When I tweeted yesterday on the rumored short list for the San Francisco MoMA expansion competition, Curbed SF called me sour!

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Tearing Down

At the end of a session at the Architectural League's On Criticism reading group, the non-journalists in attendance began to ask the journalists whether architecture critics had any power.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Critical Mass

Not to be overly self-referential, but I have to highlight this paragraph of Places editor Nancy Levinson’s response to the comments on her response to my Nicolai Ouroussoff piece.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

On DO: Why Ouroussoff Is Not Good Enough

Well, it took me about six month to work up to this, but here goes: If the death of the architecture critic is nigh, we really need better ones than Ouroussoff occupying the top spots.