And they’re ugly. June 6, 2022 In the new book, Lange examines what malls have meant for women as sites of professional advancement and how mall design — with its broad doors, gentle ramps ...

The American mall ... when shopping tips from chore “into a pleasure in itself.” As Lange writes, Gruen and the developers who followed dictated “art curation, landscape design, store ...

D.C., to “the poshest of suburban shopping malls,” not intended as a compliment. “Pei, who had a long career in commercial design,” Ms. Lange notes, “would likely have had no issue with ...

The design critic Alexandra Lange’s new book considers the rise and ... and peacefully coexist with online shopping? The father of American malls was Victor Gruen, who studied architecture ...