Alexandra Lange

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Here is the Stahl family's FB message regarding the sale of Case Study House 22. Possibly my all-time #1 architecture tour... Carlotta and Mark Stahl were hosting and it was absolutely magical. No one wanted to leave. Won't be the same under new owners, esp. given likely price tag, but 🤞

Did you see this? Quills are back for 2026

Yes! The whole TV rug is family heraldry, including that floorplan.

A Black woman wearing a black top, black pants, white glasses, and sneakers stands among rows of cardboard boxes.

Federal funding cuts go deeper than erasing Black history; they suppress the voices of those who share and protect Black stories, which puts the future of Black history at risk. baltimorebeat.com/the-importan...

I had a real Uh oh moment last night when 14yo asked me where his debate trophies from middle school were ... I wouldn't have purged those over the summer, would I ??? ... and they were in the second place I looked. I love having a house-shaped database in my head.

It's applications time of year again so just putting it out there: I'm always happy to talk about the fellowship programs I've attended AND I had to apply multiple times. Don't be discouraged!

There's a French Chef connection in my new book that I was very happy to make

It's Julia Child Day (at Smith College)! Queen of the organized kitchen // download the special issue of Design Quarterly or a poster here walkerart.org/magazine/des...

Abercrombie --- > Library in Escondido and readership is up www.kpbs.org/news/living/...

I would be so much more sympathetic if the hill he'd decided to die on was building the banned sandboxes and jungle gyms

New York Times! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015...

Pumpkin (symbolic), a Shaker-style lemon, and chocolate pecan.

The only thing I make for Thanksgiving is pie and I make the same 3 every year and people are *happy* Some of these pie flavor suggestions are bonkers to me. Experiment with the controversial salad.

Add this to le discourse:

I just finished a piece for next Azure mag issue on how trad malls across Canada (box + parking lot) are being transformed into mixed use, indoor outdoor shopping centres that resemble walkable trad downtowns. So some considerable $$$ is going urban in Canada.

I have to take the LIRR tomorrow and I think it is only the second (?!?) time in my 30+ years in NYC. I'm afraid of getting lost in that part of Atlantic Terminal!

Eyes on the street but only security guards are home

Wild. We always say on the podcast that owning a car is required for effective full enfranchisement in most places of the USA because we are such a car-dependent society, but this is...next level. They say it like it's disqualifying for office.

I’m stealing this idea for my husband!

Our podcast project on American women architects was turned down for an NEH grant earlier this year — amazing reviews but women? It was a no. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Finnish-Style Baby Boxes Get a New York Twist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned to offer citywide baby boxes, a free care package program for expectant NYC mothers. Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams already paved the way.

For the weekend reader: Why Finnish-style baby boxes became a talking point in the NYC mayoral election www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.

“Many of its nearly 50 grant programs have been paused or ended, according to an examination of its website. About 2/3 of the staff has been laid off and, last month, most members of the scholarly council that must review a majority of grants were abruptly fired by the White House.”

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Student journalist terminated following interview with UVA interim President Paul Mahoney - C-VILLE Weekly Getting an interview with, let alone answers from, upper leadership at the University of Virginia is an uphill battle for any news organization. The groups with the most access to UVA’s administration...

A student journalist fired... For asking follow-up questions to the president of the state's flagship university.

New York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One.

Speaking of the teens and young adults … www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/r...

I had no idea what I was doing in college but I did write a critique of the leadership of the architecture school, then in its darkest days, and I edited reviews on Halloween candy and Madonna's Sex book so there was something there. I appreciate students who go for it.

I love that the Daily Princetonian published a special issue about their new museum + it included criticism! www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

joys of jell-o cover

Need a little midday distraction? I know I do, so I present to you JOYS OF JELL-O (1967), found in my grandmother's house.

A poster for Manpower Temporary Services by Lois Ehlert from 1979 in pink, orange, green and blue, made to look like a 19th century cross stitch sampler. It reads "OFFICE SWEET OFFICE" and has an alphabet along with geometric floral designs.

Get in losers we're ruining the workplace.

Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.

A ton of strip malls and also mall malls and corporate headquarters

Great piece that argues, Less playable art, more everyday play

Thank you, this is great!