Episode 492: Alexandra Lange

Published: June 22, 2022, 7:05 p.m.

b'Alexandra Lange is a design critic whose work has appeared in\\xa0The New Yorker,\\xa0The New York Times, and many other publications. Her new book is\\xa0Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.\\n\\u201cI 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.\\u201d\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@LangeAlexandra\\n\\nalexandralange.net\\n\\n\\xa0Lange on Longform\\n\\n00:00\\xa0Lange\'s\\xa0Design Observer\\xa0archive\\n\\n\\n00:00\\xa0Lange\'s\\xa0Curbed\\xa0archive\\n\\n\\n00:00\\xa0Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall\\xa0(Bloomsbury \\u2022 2022)\\n\\n15:00\\xa0"Malls and the Future of American Retail"\\xa0(Curbed \\u2022 Feb 2018)\\n\\n17:00\\xa0"Owings Mills Mall in 1986"\\xa0(YouTube)\\n\\n21:00\\xa0Lange\'s\\xa0New York Magazine\\xa0archive\\n\\n\\n21:00\\xa0Lange\\u2019s Tumblr\\n\\n\\n26:00\\xa0Witold Rybczynski\\u2019s\\xa0Architect Magazine\\xa0archive\\n\\n\\n30:00\\xa0The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids\\xa0(Bloomsbury \\u2022 2018)\\n\\n35:00\\xa0New Angle: Voice\\xa0(Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation)\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'