Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Keeping Faith

A church and a cemetery reawaken my faith in a higher architectural standard.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

GourmetLive: The Architecture of Food

Now that we know we produce too much waste, now that aesthetics are suspect, now that we must compost or perish, how do design and architecture retool themselves for less, or better, or tastier consumption?

Alexandra Lange|Essays

What I Would Have Bought in Sweden

While the Swedish modern architecture we saw ran to blank surfaces of stone, glass and stucco, every store was bursting with color and pattern.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Join the Conversation!

I am hosting this week's Glass House Conversations, inspired by the comments (on and off the blogosphere) in reaction to my negative review of the Museum of Modern Art's "Small Scale, Big Change" exhibition.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

AN Friday Review: Harry Weese

I review the new book The Architecture of Harry Weese. I was dreaming of a monograph on Weese only a few months ago. Unfortunately, this book was not what I had in mind.

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Northern Highlights

I don't usually do photo posts, but while I am mentally processing my trip to Denmark and Sweden, I thought I would share some architecture, design, foliage moments from the trip. I think the theme is texture.

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In Dwell: Platner’s Opulent Modernism

I see Warren Platner as a missing link between modernism and post-modernism, and another hero of the interior ignored by architectural history.

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On Design Observer: Girard + Folk Art

Alexander Girard fascinates me as an architect who refused to play the skyscraper game, focusing his considerable talents on restaurants, textiles, exhibitions and murals.

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Designing with Folk Art

Alexandra Lange examines Alexander Girard's work at the Deere & Co. Administrative Center, which he completed in the 1960's.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

FT Weekend: People in glass houses

UUsually it feels churlish, biting the hand that feeds, to draw back the curtain on reporting. But in the case of my story, “People in Glass Houses,” for FT Weekend, every step of the process of spending the night in two …

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Change Observer: "Small Scale" Reviewed

My review of the Museum of Modern Art's first foray into socially conscious design: Small Scale, Big Change.

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

Uncommon Ground

Exhibition review of "Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement," Museum of Modern Art, New York.