Alexandra LangeVerified account

@LangeAlexandra

Design critic. Previously architecture critic . Bylines + more. Next book: shopping malls

Brooklyn
alexandralange.net
Joined February 2010
4,264 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @LangeAlexandra

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @LangeAlexandra

  1. Pinned Tweet
    3 Dec 2019

    It’s my turn for 📖 some professional news 📖

    66 replies 19 retweets 492 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  2. 6 hours ago

    (Making toys for yourself is fine, let your toddler make their own toys)

    What to do with all those cardboard boxes you haven’t been able to recycle? Use them to make toys for your toddler, writes Tomás Q. Morín​ in this week's letter of recommendation.​
    2 likes
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    6 hours ago

    Anyway we'd have to do fewer postmortems on why so many tech CEOs are con men if we increased skepticism on the front end and asked why, in fact, these people are alleged geniuses.

    1 reply 5 retweets 28 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  4. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    wonderful and wrenching story from about Augusta Savage, the Harlem Renaissance sculptor whose monumental work “The Harp” was destroyed — but whose legacy is now being rediscovered and celebrated, with beautiful archival footage of her at work

    1 reply 13 retweets 28 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  5. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    NEW: The city is looking to relocate hundreds of concrete animal sculptures located in NYC playgrounds. I learned about the wacky history behind these sculptures, and why they're featured in every playground renovated in the '80s and '90s.

    34 replies 61 retweets 289 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  6. 11 hours ago

    “Boomers rejected the station wagons they grew up in, and that helped make the minivans successful, and similarly, the next generation would reject minivans.’” — 

    1 reply 3 retweets 11 likes
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    Congrats to Summer Intensive instructor , whose brand new book "New Yorkers: A City and its People in our Time" got a write up in, well, fittingly, . For a chance to participate in Craig's workshop, apply to the Summer Intensive below.

    4 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  8. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    “It’s time for Queens to be the centerpiece of New York City’s open space initiatives & to think holistically about open space and transportation together.” ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩

    1 reply 4 retweets 8 likes
    Undo
  9. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    I think this will be an interesting topic in the coming years. It is certainly starting to happen here in Canada and is being taken seriously (disclosure I work with the guy quoted in this image and in below article).

    3 replies 5 retweets 25 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  10. 14 hours ago

    Someone is going to write an app that matches people seeking apartments with the emptiest office building in their city — you sort out the details

    5 replies 2 retweets 121 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  11. 14 hours ago

    Someone is going to render inserting shipping containers with West Elm beds into giant 1980s office floors as a solution to this problem

    4 replies 8 retweets 160 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  12. 14 hours ago

    This whole “just turn the office buildings into housing” discourse really points to how little the people who think they know about money and technology even think about physical spaces, their age, their requirements

    25 replies 42 retweets 596 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  13. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    This Friday (April 2) Natalie de Blois would have turned 100 years old. To celebrate her work and life, we have organized an event featuring Gabrielle Esperdy, Carol Ross Barney, Margaret McCurry, and Jana McCann. Info + RSVP:

    1 reply 5 retweets 14 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    Shutting up shop: on the demise of the department store

    4 retweets 6 likes
    Undo
  15. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    Citi Field, Bathgate, and Brooklyn Army Terminal are offering walk-ins to 75+ New Yorkers. One eligible person accompanying the senior can also be vaccinated without an appointment at these 3 sites.

    NEW: Walk-in vaccination expanding in NYC. NYers aged 75+ AND one eligible person accompanying them (family, caregiver, etc) can be vaccinated without appointment at three mass vax sites: * Citifield * Bathgate, Bronx * Brooklyn Army Terminal (Need this in Manhattan too!)
    4 replies 93 retweets 175 likes
    Undo
  16. Mar 29

    Here’s a question I haven’t seen the answer to: Is there a benefit to my husband and me getting different vaccines? Like, that way if one of them is less protective against a variant, we won’t both get sick? He’s getting J&J on Thursday.

    4 replies 8 likes
    Undo
  17. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    hi, i am in need of a (paid) freelance editor with expertise in '70s/'80s progressive soul/neo soul/quiet storm music for a small one-off piece. DM me if you're interested!

    5 replies 19 retweets 23 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  18. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    just Zeisel

    1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  19. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    I'm looking to briefly tell the story of someone who died of COVID-19 in the US who was building or planning something big and concrete, like a house, a business, or a planned family—someone probably under the age of 50.

    2 replies 14 retweets 6 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  20. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    Tension between "male" priorities (roads and bridges) and "female" priorities (childcare school). Rare to see it spelled out so clearly here and in partisan terms. I think this is 100% accurate. Especially when you consider who the industries employ.

    3 replies 21 retweets 82 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  21. Retweeted
    Mar 29

    Continuando en el tema de las bolsas, aquí una ya de los años 80 y en plástico, también de la tienda De Todo.

    1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo

@LangeAlexandra hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·