In 2018, Alexandra Lange tackled the horror of home tech, made a case for Late Modernism, and visited a subtle standout in Houston As 2018 winds itself to a close (just us, or has it seemed so long"), we?re throwing it back to some of Curbed?s most compelling stories of the year. Here, we?ve got eight powerful additions to Alexandra Lange?s Critical Eye column. One prevalent theme in Lange?s work from this year is that an architecture critic?s job isn?t just about single-building reviews. (Though, if that?s your bag, don?t miss her take on the new Menil in Houston.) We?ve got teen space! We?ve got post-#MeToo architect profiles! We?ve got Black Mirror! We?ve got 1960s-era tram cars in a 630-foot-tall stainless steel arch!
For more Alexandra, don?t miss the annual year-in-review design awards, co-authored with eternal partner-in-judgment Mark Lamster, critic at the Dallas Morning News. We?re saving that one for next week, so you have can enjoy some piping-hot pithiness in an internet landscape of warmed-up leftovers. Look for it here on Thursday, December 27.
The end of the architect profile, April 19, 2018
In which our critic takes a stand against perpetuating the solo artist myth in architecture writing. Excerpt: ?Something, anything, to keep your reader from the truth: that your subject is an abstraction-spouting workaholic with a huge team of people who have drawn, rendered, detailed, supervised, constructed the work in question. The profile lives to serve ...