Getting spam book prize emails about my book that hasn't even been published yet.
Alexandra Lange
@langealexandra.bsky.social
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Soooooo junk playgrounds can be a front page story in the WSJ even though they’ve been around since the 1940s? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ne...
Don’t Call Me a Helicopter Parent. My Kid’s in a Junkyard Playing With a Saw.
Families are flexing their free-range bona fides by letting kids loose with hammers and secondhand wheelchairs.
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I love all the praise for the paper calendar in the responses to "AI for families" type posts. I am so devoted to the paper calendar that my husband makes us a custom one the size of the plotter every month -- it's big enough to read from the dining table.
There are so many things going on in this press release announcing Filene's in Boston is becoming office space. Daniel Burnham, "make no little plans." Department store decline. Adaptive reuse. "Preservation can also be climate action." I actually believe most of this is true, which is rare.
I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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Nazi ferns at Walmart cost $14.88@suesantoro.bsky.social · 3d agoChildren's rights must move forward as a cause. All of these evils perpetrated today harm children more than anyone. Children can't vote or advocate for themselves politically, so adults must rise up and do it for them. They are losing everything, can't fully comprehend this, and can't fight back
Like this view? You won’t experience it anymore if the presidential arch is approved. You’ll just see a militarized structure that is a symbolic embodiment of the brand. Probably will also include a banner with his pic on it, as seen at DOJ and elsewhere. You can comment by 9/29.
Michele Bogart@urbaninsideout.bsky.social · 3d agoIf you see something, say something: two more days to comment on this overscaled arch, which would destroy views from Arlington Cemetery to major DC monuments like Lincoln Memorial. (And vice versa). See below for more info. savingplaces.org/monumental-a...
I was just recognized while wandering around the USC campus looking for the museum, which seems about right for me
The Lucas Museum really unlocks *men’s* desire to pose for a photo
Sometimes you’re like, Wow, I said this to a real estate dude 20 years ago and he just kept talking about Class A office space as if he’d never met an architect nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/21/p...
I recently told 15yo I grew up with an avocado refrigerator and he couldn’t even process that idea! www.npr.org/2026/09/21/n...
Are we in a 'color recession'? : It's Been a Minute
Are neutrals dominating your color palette?Our world is looking kind of gray. Not the trees, the grass or the sky – but the cars, the buildings, the houses, and the decor and appliances in them. Neutrals dominate – like the famous “Millennial gray.” There are a lot of reasons, both structural and cultural, why color is leaching out of some of our most important and most expensive possessions – but what do we think our colors say about us? And what role does color play in our lives today?To get into it, Brittany is joined by Amogh Dimri, assistant editor at The Atlantic and the writer of a piece about “the color recession,” and Katy Kelleher, a writer, editor, and author of the book The Ugly History of Beautiful Things.(00:00) What does the color recession look like?(02:26) How American cities lost their color(06:26) Who's really picking 'Millennial gray'?(08:28) What color choices say about class(13:15) Why color might be scary(20:33) Finding the freedom to be colorfulFor more episodes on tastes, design and material culture, check out:Fashion isn't art. It's something more.The ugly truth of America's expensive homesThe hard work of having "good taste"Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.
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Excited to be headed back to Sydney in Nov for the opening of Powerhouse Parramatta and the inaugural exhibition, THE MALL I'll be appearing at two events, one with Darran Anderson powerhouse.com.au/program/open... And one with mall royalty Peggy Gruen powerhouse.com.au/program/open...
“Do not get rid of this place orthe dinos will bite you”
I am also willing to throw down to save the Kennedy Center but you have to admit (as a historian of modern architecture) that THIS being the building that finally awakens the fervor is pretty funny. Specifically designed to appease the marble-red-and-gold lovers!
I’m glad that Peter Gray has seen the light but why can’t any of these dudes push their argument beyond people and into the design of our cities and suburbs? And why don’t people want to read the books that do 🤷🏼♀️ www.thecut.com/article/pete...
The Fantasy of the Free-Roaming Child
Peter Gray’s diagnosis for an anxious generation rests on an imaginary past.
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Nice endorsement for courtyard housing in this story about a new foster care village in California sponsored by Christian Bale www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/r...
Each of my books has depended on the archives of the Performing Arts Library, of which I made free use because I'm lucky enough to live close by. This gift robs me of my unfair advantage & I hate it. (Seriously: A miracle that will transform performing arts research.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...
New York Performing Arts Library Gets $60 Million Gift for Preservation (Gift Article)
The anonymous donation, the library’s largest ever, will support digitization of archival items related to theater, dance and music.
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I watched 15 minutes of hockey content on YouTube and now I am getting Zyns ads!
Remembering that I've long wanted to do a project about the Quakers x space (I went to Quaker school for 8 years and I am always running into them in my research)
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoA Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
"People already went there to use the internet. To get information. To ask for help. Or simply to spend time." www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/the-...
I am an exhibit! I'm super excited that the Rhode Island Historical Society re-interpreted one of their c.1970s period rooms at the Museum at the John Brown House using my book, History Comes Alive! If you're in Rhode Island (say, if you're at @ncph.bsky.social / @aaslh.org) you should stop by!
I'm doing blind endnotes and the selected texts create a weird poetry "they become as anonymous as a Holiday Inn" "disciplined but still festive" "where visitors are always taken by the natives" "grumbling that they all looked alike" "Modern man does not experience himself"
We are back for S4 of New Angle: Voice with one of my favorite episodes yet: "The Old Girls' Network: Eleanor Raymond and the Modern House." Solar power! Queer lifestyles! Muscle cars! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
I can't wait until the wrecking crew he sends over there, Bonwit-Teller Building style, sends marble crashing onto the Rock Creek Parkway as a treat.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes, Trump branding dispute, AP sources say.
My prediction for this "end of the Regents" moment is that the more competitive high schools are just going to keep them as an option like APs, essentially maintaining the advanced Regents diploma.
After our trip to Maine I am seeing all of the National Park subreddits, and on top of the perils of AI directions I just want to tell everyone to CALM DOWN about locationmaxxing. Every post is like, "this peak or that peak," "can we see these 10 highlights in one day," "compare Acadia to the PNW"
We are back for S4 of New Angle: Voice with one of my favorite episodes yet: "The Old Girls' Network: Eleanor Raymond and the Modern House." Solar power! Queer lifestyles! Muscle cars! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
trump has the temerity to talk about how the White House was in bad shape when he got there while my city looks like this
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2w agoThe '86 47' was painted over around June 14. Three months later, it looks like the feds have ripped up all the sod over towards the Washington Monument. Meanwhile, the Reflecting Pool is again empty
