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MAS Context Fall Talks 2018

Alexandra Lange: Preserving Childhood

October 9, 2018 at 6PM

Lecture by architecture critic Alexandra Lange. The lecture took place at the School of the Art Institute. This talk is organized in collaboration with SAIC AIADO and is supported by Perkins+Will.

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Preserving Childhood

Childhood is fleeting, but its structures are monumental, both in memory and in urban life. In this lecture, “Preserving Childhood,” Alexandra Lange will discuss the history, design and civic legacy of key spaces for children’s education and recreation, with cameo appearances by Booker T. Washington, the Saarinens, Robert Moses, Paul Friedberg, Buckminster Fuller, Josep Lluis Sert, and the wrecking ball.

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Preserving Childhood, Chicago, 2018. © School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Preserving Childhood, Chicago, 2018. © School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Preserving Childhood, Chicago, 2018. © School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Preserving Childhood, Chicago, 2018. © School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Preserving Childhood, Chicago, 2018. © School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Preserving Childhood, Chicago, 2018. © School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Thanks to the Perkins+Will for supporting the event.

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Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange is the architecture critic for Curbed. Her essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in numerous design publications including Architect, Design Observer, Dezeen, and Metropolis, as well as in New York Magazine, the New Yorker, and the New York Times. She was a 2014 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her new book, The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids was published by Bloomsbury USA in June 2018. Research for the book was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She is also the author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), the e-book The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism (Strelka Press, 2012), and Design Research: The Store that Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle Books, 2010), which she co-authored with Jane Thompson.