Episode 492: Alexandra Lange
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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.”

Show notes:

• @LangeAlexandra)

• alexandralange.net)

•  Lange on Longform)

• 00:00 Lange's Design Observer archive)

• 00:00 Lange's Curbed archive)

• 00:00 Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall) (Bloomsbury • 2022)

• 15:00 "Malls and the Future of American Retail") (Curbed • Feb 2018)

• 17:00 "Owings Mills Mall in 1986") (YouTube)

• 21:00 Lange's New York Magazine archive)

• 21:00 Lange’s Tumblr)

• 26:00 Witold Rybczynski’s Architect Magazine archive)

• 30:00 The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids) (Bloomsbury • 2018)

• 35:00 New Angle: Voice) (Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation)

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