Alexandra Lange
@LangeAlexandra
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Design critic @Citylab @Curbed @NYTimes @NewYorker @Dezeen . “Meet Me By the Fountain” aka The Mall Book @BloomsburyPub June 2022. @langealexandra @mastodon .world
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!!! Was not expecting finished copies of MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN today !!! But I’ll take it + hopefully tempt you to preorder Out June 14 ➡️➡️➡️
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"Students who reported they gained independence later in childhood — going to the grocery store or riding public transportation alone, for example — viewed their university campus as more dangerous"
New from me: Researchers are beginning to ask if a lack of childhood independence plays a role in the mental health crisis. "Today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort."
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I’m going to buy so many of these Ellsworth Kelly stamps
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I had a little rant about how much I prefer 1970s mall aesthetics to the current shininess at my last mall talk
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I’m irrationally angry that Gwyneth has a Ruth Asawa
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It’s v important to know the Guggenheim could have been pink
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@chaykak
nightmare for credits and references (and I know because I find my own photos on there all the time)
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My forever obsession is colorful tech of the past. I don’t know who is choosing the colors for Apple, Alexa, etc. but they are so unappealing.
@cooperhewitt
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RIP Enzo Mari // a few of my favorites *great design for kids*
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My column this weekend revisits the work of Chicago architectural photographer Orlando Cabanban.
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Since we are sharing our favorite Milton Glasers ... R.I.P. ❤️🌈
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Except then AS USUAL the reasons for this start w smartphone use when they should start with lack of pedestrian safety + teen gathering places and over-reliance on organized activities
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This is a fun thing to post when a lot of architects follow you on Instagram
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This whole “just turn the office buildings into housing” discourse really points to how little the people who think they know about money and technology even think about physical spaces, their age, their requirements
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RIP Richard Rogers — Patscenter in East Windsor, NJ, from a few years ago
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Someone had fun with paint in downtown Muncie and I appreciate it!
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Galleys are in for MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN: AN INSIDE HISTORY OF THE MALL and I’m thrilled to share the cover
@katiphon
—> Preorder here for June 2022
—> LMK if you’re in the media and you want one
—> Can’t wait to talk more malls
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This seems like the beginning of a New York Magazine story
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A visual reminder that the original open plan offices had a lot more space between people (Connecticut General, SOM and Knoll, photo by Ezra Stoller)
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“Work cube,” Nomadic Furniture (1973), Hennessey + Papanek
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I stayed at Hotel Marcel in Breuer’s former Pirelli Building in New Haven — appreciated all the details (brown! Bauhaus!)
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You know I wouldn’t go to Niagara Falls without visiting Paul Rudolph’s Public Library
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Went on a tour of Alvar Aalto’s Baker House at MIT as a treat
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Was also a thrill to finally see Freeway Park by Halprin + Danadjieva, peak brutal landscape
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@artcrimeprof
Would read and I think my version of this is going to second cities that have plenty of architectural sites -- tho that means the kids have to put up with questions like "Why are you going to Baltimore for spring break?"
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Here’s the thing about having streets where children can play: They help each other with minimal parental supervision — you don’t have to do everything if kids have the space to make their own fun
A group of neighborhood kids came together to help teach a little boy how to ride his bike. The boy's mom captured the footage — and it might be the most wholesome thing you'll see all day. ❤️
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I'm looking at the House & Garden from October 1975 for ~reasons~ and it may be the greatest collection of too muchness I've ever seen
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“Would I drive this?” YES
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Clinton Street coming through with the candy chutes
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Today is the first birthday of ⛲️🛍️MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN 🛍️⛲️
Thank you to everyone who read, listened, reviewed, podcasted, reminisced, plotted with me.
I knew the world needed a mall book, and 🤞more on malls to come.
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I’m excited to be able to share that I will be receiving the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary
@AIGAdesign
Awards Ceremony April 6. Even better, Alexander Girard, one of the cultural phenoms on whom I have commented, is getting a 2019 Medal!
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I’m going on my first MALL FIELD TRIP on Monday and the architect just emailed me this map with our meeting spot. Now I’m wondering if my book cover should just be a galaxy of mall plans.
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This is … basically the description of a child-friendly city. What works for kids works for everyone.
Brilliant: Newcastle, UK, releases a ‘pro-city’ plan to create a walking and cycling network to connect every school, to every park, to every local shopping center. Culling parking from the streetscape is one of the key ways they are going to do it.
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RIP I.M. Pei. This is the building of his I’ve spent the most time in, the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library in Columbus, IN
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I like to pick the most architect outfit at awards shows
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It’s a banner two selfie day y’all ... I just got my LA Area Emmy for
@KCETArtbound
“Masters of Modern Design”
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Let’s make the lives of mothers easier through slow streets, protected bike lanes, abundant playgrounds and other places where children can assert their independence safely and inexpensively!
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I just have zero patience for grown men saying they are scared when my 75 pound 11yo is commuting daily ZERO PATIENCE
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I’ve waited a long time to see OMA’s Seattle Central Library and I loved it
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I really don’t know how teaching is going but yesterday I got to talk about how brown was king in the 1970s, one of my favorite topics.
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Pilgrimage to MIT Chapel / Eero Saarinen with Harry Bertoia
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Finally got to see Bell Works, the mixed-use redevelopment of Saarinen’s Bell Labs (which you all know from Severance)
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Got the first copy of my living, breathing book this weekend! Pub date is June 12 // please preorder or ask for it at your local bookstore to find out what Eero Saarinen and ZOOB have in common...
@BloomsburyPub
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It’s Architecture Twitter’s favorite San Francisco building!
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Can’t be said enough: design cities for children
A street that works for kids works for everyone. Today's release of Designing Streets for Kids shows how cities can lead by following the footsteps of children around the world.
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I went looking for an I.M. Pei photo to share and got distracted by all the grids of Columbus, IN so here he is in context (clockwise from top L: Eliel Saarinen, Roche Dinkeloo, I.M. Pei, Alexander Girard)
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I don’t agree with this description, but I love it anyway
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Finally in a place that knows how to do wayfinding
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TIL my husband thinks of the year as a wheel with Christmas at the top. I can’t even wrap my head around this! I think of the year as a stack of 12 rectangles with January at the top where she belongs, like a paper calendar floating in headspace.
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C’mon
@nytimes
you can’t write an entire story about new libraries attracting new audiences without identifying ALL the architects. I’m so mad on behalf of
@snohetta
@LakeFlato
et all rn
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Nice surprise this morning! My
@curbed
story “No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants” on teens and public space won 2018
@nypressclub
award for Feature Reporting - Internet // Look for Pt. 2 on teenspace later this month
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🙏 Thank you!
Congrats to architecture critic
@LangeAlexandra
, who will be awarded with the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award at
@AIA_NewYork
's 15th annual Honors and Awards Luncheon this spring!
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I knew I had photos: As I’ve had to say far too many times (AT&T lobby, Hall of Gems & Minerals, UN Plaza restaurant) why are we destroying so much exuberance for blandness?
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I am the worst kind of logo traditionalist but why would anyone give up Ferragamo's incredible script?
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Ummmmmmmm (could we start with the cars?!?)
Today’s children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age, a new study found.
The study points to climate change and rising temperatures adversely affecting childhood obesity, as children spend less time exercising outdoors.
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I hate this because it means people only see art one way: As a marathon day designed to get their money's worth.
The Guggenheim will announce a price hike today — joining a "new normal" in the museum world in which tickets cost $30.
What's behind it? I spoke with nearly two dozen museums to find out. Here's what I heard...
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One of so many Chermayeff & Geismar works New Yorkers see every day: the 53rd St/Lex Av stop. RIP Ivan Chermayeff
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MoMA just announced a summer show every Brutalism-lover will drool over: "Toward a Concrete Utopia: The Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980”
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Would you guys follow a dedicated account where I shared Instagram Stories of new design books that I think are worthy? What is it that convinces you to buy a design book?
I ask because I am lucky to be sent many books, I mostly buy out-of-print for research.
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This seems important for architects to know: Cutting engineered stone countertops (like Caesarstone) is unsafe for workers
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Not too many architects who provoke this response!
I’m jurying a documentary festival (Hot Springs, if you’re curious) and one of the films is about architect Bruce Goff—probably not something I would have watched on my own, but oh my fucking god
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The Cadet Chapel at the US Air Force Academy is Colorado’s most visited building and ... I am not a bit surprised //
@SOM_Design
and Walter Netsch
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Six amazing women of the Bauhaus — and what their work and their stories have to say about design today
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You say “crazy house of rectangles,” I say thank goodness Paul Rudolph’s Milam House found an owner who doesn’t want to tear it down. New story
@TandCmag
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What’s hilarious about this is that everything at West Elm is inspired by something Scandi from 1955
Wayfair's "West Elm-inspired" line draws design patent infringement suit from West Elm owner Williams-Sonoma.
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“This young man came up to me and said ‘I agree with everything you said. And my name is Robert Venturi.’ And I said ‘well why didn’t you say something then?'” DSB on how it all began
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I just got $167.83 in royalties for Writing About Architecture! Thank you for assigning it in classes in 2019
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First architecture of the day: Paul Rudolph, Temple Street Garage, New Haven
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Always attracted to this era of multifamily housing, which I like to call, Everyone Loves Italian Hill Towns
Annau Architects, Bedford Glen Condominiums (1976) Toronto, ON
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There’s almost TOO MUCH 21st-century urbanism in these Sidewalk Toronto renderings. Kites! Kayaks! Heatherwick balconies! Leftover industrial equipment painted cunning colors! Permeable pavements!
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We used to have proper linoleum
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Two years ago I wrote about “No Small Plans,” a graphic novel for teens about urban planning
@NewYorker
. Just got an update that
@chiarchitecture
has distributed 8500+ free copies to students and is planning a “Design Your Neighborhood” summer camp
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Y’all, they have edited the photo and removed the caption reference to Asawa — I think this actually *is a copy* as many have been saying in my mentions
I’m irrationally angry that Gwyneth has a Ruth Asawa
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Yes why? Unfortunately I suspect men are going to have to say it to get other men to listen.
I wrote about what it means for cities to focus as much on attracting residents as attracting jobs
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JFC the problem with contemporary architecture criticism is that no one will pay for it
At 'eclipse of criticism' symposium. First off Bob Somol, lamenting state of contemporary architectural criticism: 'bloggers who haven't even studied architecture like McMansion.' Poor research skills + superlative levels of ignorance and arrogance there Bob
@mcmansionhell
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It’s been one week since my piece on toy libraries was published, and every day I get another great email from someone who wants to bring one to their town!
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Honestly, I love it but I have to because I asked for things to be weirder
A good time to bury bad news – OMA unveils its new department store in South Korea, modelled on a prolapsed intestine
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I’m at Brooklyn IKEA! They have all the Marimekko x IKEA merch
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I just spoke to an architect in Italy who says no one in Italy wants an open kitchen. It’s all culture.
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If you have never toured Parkchester in the Bronx (built by MetLife 1939-42, where my mother spent her early years) you really should — brick fans, terra cotta fans, housing fans, landscape fans
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And so it begins: MEET ME BY THE FOUNTAIN: AN INSIDE HISTORY OF THE MALL is on
@PublishersWkly
Spring 2022 Top 10 Art, Architecture & Photography books Thank you!
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My vacation vibe is Lady Architect Propaganda: last stop was the Berkeley City Club to swim in the beautiful Julia Morgan pool
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Hellerware as architecture, by Alan Buchsbaum for Owens Corning
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