What's Next for Architecture?

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i feel like it is the right time to write about malls. It's almost like it being mall's time is working on the same like pop cultural, like arena,. Like 19 eighties, like cultural sycle right now. I mean, probabley blake millen, m y two k nastalgia. i was already an adult with my own taste at that time. So it's a little different, for me, like, i went through the eighties malls, as you knowt a ten anger in teen just kind of experiencing it without the layer of critical distance. so i say, that is where it is.

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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