Alexandra Lange is a design critic, historian, and author, most recently, of Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury, 2022). She is a contributing editor at Bloomberg CityLab and the former architecture critic for Curbed. Her essays, reviews and features have appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. Lange was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard GSD in 2014, and received the BRIO Prize and the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award from AIA New York in 2020.
While at MacDowell, she worked on her fifth book, Making Do, about the 1970s, the built environment, and DIY culture.
Portrait by Mark Wickens
