Alexandra Lange
Autor de Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Sobre El Autor
Alexandra Lange's writing has appeared in design journals, New York magazine, the New Yorkers, the New York Times, Curbed, and many other publications. She received a PhD in twentieth-century architecture history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She is the author or co-author mostrar más of several books, including Writing About Architecture and a forthcoming history of the mall. She lives in Brooklyn. mostrar menos
Obras de Alexandra Lange
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- female
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 320
- Popularidad
- #73,923
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 2
While a book like this can sound dry, it remained engaging throughout... namely because of Lange's prose:
"The common ground of all ruin porn is waste. A waste of materials, a waste of design, a waste of imagination. I can't admire the lines of a building if I am thinking about how its emptiness brings the city down, block by block, crime by crime, into a vicious cycle of limited economic opportunity. Any travelers in the world of dead malls must ask themselves whether they are prepared to fight to put people back into the gutted buildings, or it they merely intend to pick over the aesthetic bones."… (más)