"i want to know what the architect thinks, not because i think they're the beall and end all opinion of the building," she says. "And then i want to evaluate, is it working for me as a semi ordinary person just walking through it? Like, i try to always remind people that, you know, sometimes you're seeing a new building, like as a tour with an architect."
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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