Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, journalist and historian. Her work has appeared in The Architect's Newspaper, Design Observer, Metropolis, New York Magazine and The New York Times, and she teaches architecture criticism at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. She blogs weekly at www.designobserver.com about design in the real world, and can be found on Twitter @LangeAlexandra.She is co-author, with Jane Thompson, of "Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes" (Chronicle, 2010) and sole author of "Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012).She contributed several essays to "Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future" (Yale University Press, 2006), and her PhD dissertation, "There's No Place Like Work," discussed the integration of modern architecture, design and landscape at CBS, Connecticut General, Deere & Co. and IBM in the 1950s and 1960s.