Architecture Critics - What I Learned From Them

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i'm the third generation in a design family, so i was always like orienten towards design. My two greatest architecture critic heroes were ada louise huxtable and michael sorkin,. They were great critics, but i think they were wrong about what malls would ultimately come to mean. When i got out of college, i got a job up as an editorial assistant at new york magazine. And that really taught me about feature writing, which i'd sort of do on and off. But i think that my criticism is fairly featury, like i like a scene. I like a walk around all these kinds of techniques. After i worked in ne ork magazine

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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