Episode 492: Alexandra Lange Longform

Alexandra Lange is a design critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her new book is Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.
“I really like to write about things that I can hold and experience. I'm not that interested in biography, but I am very interested in the biography of an object. ... Like I feel about the objects, I think, how most people feel about people. So what I'm always trying to do is communicate that enthusiasm and that understanding to my reader, because these objects really have a lot of speaking to do.”
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 Lange on Longform

00:00 Lange's Design Observer archive


00:00 Lange's Curbed archive


00:00 Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury • 2022)

15:00 "Malls and the Future of American Retail" (Curbed • Feb 2018)

17:00 "Owings Mills Mall in 1986" (YouTube)

21:00 Lange's New York Magazine archive


21:00 Lange’s Tumblr


26:00 Witold Rybczynski’s Architect Magazine archive


30:00 The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids (Bloomsbury • 2018)

35:00 New Angle: Voice (Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation)


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