Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange is an architecture critic who writes the Critical Eye column for Curbed. She also writes for the New Yorker, Architect Magazine, Slate Magazine, and Design Observer. She is based in New York City.

She cites Ada Louise Huxtable as a major influence. She wrote, in reference to Huxtable: "Few practitioners of criticism meant to be critics. Criticism happened to them, through a combination of luck and outrage, at moments in cities when building outstripped sense."

Education

Lange earned a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 2005, preceded by an M.A. in 2001. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Architecture and Literature in 1994.

Career

Lange is a faculty member at SVA in New York, in the Design Research, Writing and Criticism MA program.

Publications

She has published several books and book chapters, plus many dozens of articles. Her latest book, The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids, was published by Bloomsbury USA in June 2018.

Books

• The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids. Bloomsbury USA. 2018. ISBN 978-1632866356. Search this book on
  • NPR interview
  • WYNC interview
  • KCRW interview
  • New York Times interview
  • Los Angeles Times interview
  • Houston Chronicle interview
  • Metropolis review
  • Los Angeles Review of Books review
• Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities. Princeton Architectural Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1616890537. Search this book on
• The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism. Strelka Press (e-book). 2012. Search this book on ISBN 9780992914653 Search this book on ..
• (with Jane Thompson) (2010). Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0811868181. Search this book on

Book Chapters

• “Toys as Furniture / Furniture as Toys,” in Obniski, Monica; Alfred, Darrin (2018). Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300234220. Search this book on
• “Alexander Girard in Columbus,” in Brown, Susan; Eisenbrand, Jochen; Hauss, Barbara; Kries, Mateo (2016). Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe. Vitra Design Museum. ISBN 978-3945852057. Search this book on
• “Stitching a House,” in Listening: Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Houses 2009–2015. Rizzoli. 2015. ISBN 978-0847846320. Search this book on
• “Preface,” in Friedlein, Ken; Pearce, John (2015). Duke University: An Architectural Tour. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1616892302. Search this book on
• “2004 –2008,” in Thirty Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance. Princeton Architectural Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1616891978. Search this book on
• “The Glamour of Utility,” in Formica Forever. Metropolis Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1938922152. Search this book on
• “Corporate Headquarters: Saarinen in Suburbia,” in Albrecht, Donald; Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa (2011). Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300122374. Search this book on
• (with Sean Khorsandi) “Houses and Housing: At Home with Saarinen,” in Albrecht, Donald; Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa (2011). Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300122374. Search this book on
• “’I Can’t Live in a Box’: Artists, activism and lower Manhattan in the 1960s,” in Karmel, Pepe (2009). New York Cool: Paintings and Sculptures from the NYU Collection. Grey Art Gallery, New York University. ISBN 978-0615181059. Search this book on

Awards

She won a Graham Foundation grant in 2016. She was a 2014 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

External links

• Alexandra Lange
• Lange interviewed at Madame Architect
• Lange interviewed at Failed Architecture
• Lange's contributions to The New Yorker magazine
• Lange's contributions to Design Observer

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