Alexandra Lange
Curbed
New York, United States
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Museum-Design Bots Will Vanish When Twitter Charges for API
Design bots, those feeds that choose random images from museums’ decorative-arts and design collections, are likely to disappear when Twitter starts charging for API access. → Read More
Keep Your Damn Mask On! It’s the 2021 Architecture and Design Awards
Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster on the best and worst in architecture and design → Read More
Going to School in a Dead Mall? Not Such a Bad Idea.
Burlington, Vermont’s high school has temporarily set up in a former Macy’s mall anchor store. An architecture critic argues that it’s not dystopian but actually a solid idea. → Read More
The Unbearable Banality of Romance Novel Décor
Why does every romantic hero have the same open-plan living room and floor-model sectional? → Read More
Hideous? Perhaps. But It’s Time to Accept the Gaming Chair.
In our stay-at-home world, the gaming chair is more important than ever. From the original DXRacer to Herman Miller’s top-of-the-line Logitech G Embody, here’s how gaming chair design is changing. → Read More
Critical Eye
Critic Alexandra Lange's incisive, observant, curious, human- and street-friendly architecture column for Curbed. → Read More
Your Quarantine Clutter Has a Long and Distinguished History
According to Jen Howard’s timely new book ‘Clutter: An Untidy History,’ there’s no reason to be down on yourself if you’re a bit messier during the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
New York Needs to Rethink Time, Not Space, To Actually Reopen
Timed ticketing could allow for both access and social distancing. → Read More
Design competitions won’t solve your city’s problems
Contests to fix everyday urban issues create spectacles instead of solutions. → Read More
The decade in architecture: The good, the bad, and the capitalism
Two critics reflect on 10 years of atypical design awards and ask, what exactly did it all come to? → Read More
New York City’s two biggest design stories of 2019 are also design failures
Our national addiction to drama extends to million- and billion-dollar projects that will shape the waterfront for the next 50-plus years → Read More
Edward Norton on New York City’s ‘secret sin’ and the complicated legacy of Robert Moses
Alexandra Lange and the actor/director discuss his new film, "Motherless Brooklyn," through the lens of urban planning geekdom. → Read More
Navigating the MoMA reopening
The expanded Museum of Modern Art is so big, you may need GPS, and you’ll definitely need a snack. → Read More
“Succession”: Roy homes are state rooms for shitty behavior
No amount of decor can cover the truth in ‘Succession’: It’s not the furniture, it’s the humiliation. → Read More
Who’s afraid of the pedestrian mall?
To make cities safer and denser, we need to make room for people, not cars. The specter of the 1970s is holding our foot traffic back. → Read More
Rem Koolhaas is the real diva
In the final installment of our summer series, Curbed’s architecture critic re-reads all 1,344 pages of the Dutch architect’s "S,M,L,XL" → Read More
What ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’ meant to me as a woman in architecture
The catharsis of watching Cate Blanchett star in the movie version of the best-selling book. → Read More
What ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette?’ meant to me as a woman in architecture
The catharsis of watching Cate Blanchett star in the movie version of the best-selling book. → Read More
The Big Little Lie of the TV kitchen island
The women of the HBO series should lose their spectacular, high-maintenance houses. → Read More
Let Christopher Alexander design your life
In the second installment of our summer series, Curbed’s architecture critic re-reads A Pattern Language. → Read More