In Alexandra Lange’s first Ask Me Anything on August 9 @ 3pm EST, Dismantle Preservation attendees will have the opportunity to do just that on the new Discord channel. Visit Alexandra’s website and her social media channels - Twitter, Instagram to learn more about her work and to brainstorm questions for her.
Let’s learn more about the significance of malls, the impact of architectural criticisms in the design world, and what she thinks cultural resource workers should be considering.
Bio: “Alexandra Lange is a design critic. Her essays, reviews and profiles have appeared in numerous design publications including Architect, Harvard Design Magazine, Metropolis, and T Magazine, as well as in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She is a columnist for Bloomberg CityLab, and has been a featured writer at Design Observer, an opinion columnist at Dezeen, and the architecture critic for Curbed.
Her new book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, will be published by Bloomsbury USA in June 2022.
Her previous book, The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2018. Research for the book was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Design of Childhood was named one of Planetizen’s Top 10 Urban Planning Books of 2018 and has been an assigned text in art and architecture studios at ASU, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, UPenn, VCU and Yale.
Alexandra is also the author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), a primer on how to read and write architecture criticism, as well as the e-book The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism (Strelka, 2012), which considers the message of the physical spaces of Facebook, Google, and Apple.”