Is the museum store a distraction or an enticement?
Is prettiness a distraction? Yes, when it comes to taking Alexander Girard seriously.
If you can't find the entrance, there's a problem with the architecture.
Participatory budgeting lets communities put their own urban priorities in order.
No better place to consider what looks timeless now than downtown Portland.
Lessons from contemporary Australian architecture, plus what I saw on Instagram.
To create metamuseum.tumblr.com, a multi-museum, multi-curator Tumblr @MADMuseum, I saw it as a kind of curatorial game: Show Me What You’ve Got.
On Places, Alexandra Lange explores the ongoing relevance of the late 19th-century writings of Mariana Van Rensselaer, one of the pioneers of architecture criticism in America.
How do you critique the urbanism of Houston? Look for patterns.
The heroine of Where’d You Go, Bernadette is an award-winning female architect. Don’t envy her life.
Tribute to architectural photographer Balthazar Korab, and a discussion of what made him different from contemporary Ezra Stoller.
That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.
True confessions about my own bad taste. I loved Erté. Did you?
That question, the title of the 1976 collection of Ada Louise Huxtable’s work for the New York Times, embodies her approach to criticism.
Ignore the Coconuts and Marshmallows, admire George Nelson's modular graphics.
True confessions about my own bad taste. I loved Erté. Did you?
Architecture critics Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster pooh-pooh those lame, tepid, year-end wrapups for the third annual installment of their irreverent version, bestowing Frank Gehry with the "Where Starchitects Go to Die Award" for his stalled Eisenhower Memorial in DC....
Idiosyncratic awards bestowed on architecture, design and media.
Alexandra Lange dishes out some choice history from Bee Wilson’s new book, Consider the Fork. On the rise of the butter knife: In 1637, Wilson reports, Cardinal Richelieu was supposedly so offended by a guest using the point of a...
If you are interested in textile design, mid-century style, or creative partnerships, I would urge you to go visit “The World of D.D. and Leslie Tillett” at the Museum of the City of New York.