Pulitzer Prize-Winning Architectural Critic Alexandra Lange

On this episode we're joined by Alexandra Lange. She is a journalist, design critic, author and teacher. She was recently named the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner in criticism for a series of pieces at Bloomberg CityLab about designing cities for families. The judges wrote:

For graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural components that allow children and communities to thrive.

Her portfolio encompassed 7 pieces in all, spaced out from March to December of 2024. You can find the stories here:

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/22649

Alexandra shared her approach to writing these stories, providing multiple examples of the choices she made at different points along the way. She also spoke about the evolution of architectural criticism and how her writing is similar to that which you would see in op-ed pieces written at the high school, college, or professional level.

 Alexandra's salutes: Critical Minded and also journalism unions

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