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Alexandra Lange

Business

Malls and the Future of American Retail

Malls were supposed to die. Instead they’re just being reimagined (again).

Alexandra Lange Curbed Feb 2018 10min Permalink

How to Be an Architecture Critic

An essay on craft, excerpted from Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities.

Alexandra Lange Places Journal Mar 2012 10min Permalink

Arts

Why Nicolai Ouroussoff Is Not Good Enough

The uneasy dance of the architecture critic, the big-name architect, the towering new building, and the city beneath it.

Alexandra Lange Design Observer Feb 2010 Permalink