Alexandra Lange is a journalist, critic and architectural historian based in Brooklyn. She is co-author, with Jane Thompson, of the book Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle, 2010). In 2011, Princeton Architectural Press will publish her next book, a primer on reading and writing architecture criticism.

She is a contributing editor at New York Magazine, a contributing writer and blogger at Design Observer, and has written articles about architecture, design and urban planning for The Architect’s Newspaper, Icon, Metropolis and The New York Times. Alexandra also teaches architectural criticism in the Urban Design & Architectural Studies Program at New York University, curated the exhibition “+Housing: 2008 AIA New York Designs for Living” at the Center for Architecture, and has spoken about her research at the Museum of the City of New York.

She received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and has contributed to peer-reviewed publications such as the Journal of Design History and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, as well as to the definitive catalog Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale, 2006). Her dissertation, “There’s No Place Like Work,” analyzed the design, architecture and leadership of four American corporations in the 1950s and 1960s: CBS, Connecticut General, Deere & Co. and IBM.

• Hometown
  Durham, NC
• Resume
• Websites
• Observers Room: Alexandra Lange
• A Bit Late (previous blog)
• New York Magazine Archive
• twitter @LangeAlexandra
• LinkedIn Profile