As you get into more avant guard and show piece architecture, do the same kinds of values hold true? Yes, absolutely. I mean, i like, i think architecture has got to work like that's one of the things that makes it different in art. And sometimes i get really frustrated with art works that look like architecture, but they don't have to have the same functional capabilities as architecture. So yet.
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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