Alexandra Lange

The Tiny Home Construction Contest Is a Big Deal in This Texas Town

Loved this story about what is essentially competitive shop class www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/r...

So many things wrong with the sentence “it’s theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical”

Bay Curious @kqedarts.bsky.social aired our Julia Morgan episode today! Love that Julia is still gaining fans podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

I love it too, but there are ways to use it and this is not one of them

It’s not all about graphic design but you’re not going to overthrow the gerontocracy with Cooper Black and fake newsprint headlines

How a growing demand for drought-tolerant, local plants is changing the landscaping industry Every landscaper wants native plants now. But there aren’t enough native plants, and it’s causing project delays and budget overruns.

The boom in landscaping with native and drought-tolerant plants is creating a supply shortage of such fauna, impacting timelines, budgets, and even design choices for landscapers. My latest for @fastcompany.com looks at the challenge facing landscape architects www.fastcompany.com/91375097/how...

+ also look out for something in collaboration with MAD Museum when they open "Designing Motherhood" in October madmuseum.org/exhibition/d...

September events just announced:

A panel with SO-IL and Tankhouse sponsored by Madame Architect on 9/16 at the pink building in Brooklyn www.eventbrite.com/e/madame-arc...

+ A conversation @anjulierao.bsky.social at the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago on 9/25 nphm.org/event/alexan...

👇👇👇

DYK there's virtually no research on the household mobility impacts of extreme flooding events in the US? We're trying to change that, starting in our own backyard

#NCTriangle #Chantal #ChapelHillNC #DurhamNC #CarrboroNC

I see the show-off factor as secondary (but connected to) the idea that your child is too precious to be chauffeured by others / en masse

Sorry, I am just having a moment as I realize I never rode a school bus either -- walkable, walkable, car pool, then my own car

I mostly know about Boston because everything I write circles back to Boston so I would be interested to know the SoCal history

I know! Everyone pretends to want to help the teens and then it is just No, No, No, shut up and go back in your room

Maddening!

"I don't understand why we are the ones who have to change our behavior because somebody else decided that they were too angry to just walk by something that they didn't agree with."

I feel like school buses have been a real blind spot for me because [jazz hands] I live in NYC and my kids take the subway. But it is a fascinating issue that touches on so many areas -- housing patterns, school req's, real and perceived road safety, wages, the kid demographic cliff ...

slate.com/business/202...

$40K per year (in TX)

Also, “Alpha”? What are you really trying to say?

You can pay a “guide” so much less!

“11 out of 12 students got into a 4-year college” well yes that’s because they are upper middle class with college educated parents

I can’t believe we are doing this “tech will save education” thing AGAIN

Council Member @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social supports the Red Hook neighbors calling on Mayor Adams and @nycparks.bsky.social to open the Red Hook Pool asap, restore the swim programs and fund our pools and recreation centers.

Sign the @ny4p.bsky.social petition if you agree: bit.ly/redhookpool

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

This Groundbreaking Artist Vanished. A Decade of Sleuthing Reveals Her Greatness.

Love this jam from @siddharthamitter.bsky.social on the rediscovery of Mavis Pusey. Some great sleuthing here.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/a...

With Labubus and a Cat Cafe, a Shopping Mall Thrives in New York City

I am not surprised! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...

For my own part, to all the man architectural historians out there: You can read The Design of Childhood yourself, it is not just your wife who will be interested!

As I said to Nora, her book Almost Nothing is about the humiliations of being a woman architectural historian and refusing to be humiliated. Read it! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

LOL @blaservations.bsky.social reading Nora Wendl on what it is like to be a woman architectural historian: "It demands that you remain agreeable and friendly when you are provided with information that you already know, or information that is incorrect." mascontext.com/observations...

Is it a psyop so that people can’t read political messages, only look at pictures? Time will tell