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Alexandra Lange

    Alexandra Lange è una stimata giornalista e storica dell'architettura il cui lavoro approfondisce l'architettura, il design e l'urbanistica. Attraverso i suoi articoli per pubblicazioni di primo piano, esplora le intersezioni tra spazio, società e cultura. Il suo approccio analitico e l'enfasi sul pensiero critico illuminano le complessità dell'ambiente costruito e delle pratiche di design, offrendo ai lettori una comprensione più profonda del mondo che li circonda.

    Beziehungsfähig trotz geistiger Behinderung
    Acquittée. Je l'ai tué pour ne pas mourir
    Writing About Architecture
    Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
    The Design of Childhood
    • The Design of Childhood

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      "From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development. Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but the toys, classrooms, playgrounds, and neighborhoods little ones engage with are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades, even centuries of changing ideas about what makes for good child-rearing--and what does not. Do you choose wooden toys, or plastic, or, increasingly, digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can the built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates, parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle. Now, prominent design critic Alexandra Lange reveals the surprising histories behind the human-made elements of our children's pint-size landscape. Her fascinating investigation shows how the seemingly innocuous universe of stuff affects kids' behavior, values, and health, often in subtle ways. And she reveals how years of decisions by toymakers, architects, and urban planners have helped--and hindered--American youngsters' journeys toward independence. Seen through Lange's eyes, everything from the sandbox to the street becomes vibrant with buried meaning. Perfect for parents, educators, and anyone interested in design and architecture, [this book] will change the way you view the world--by showing it to you through children's eyes."--Hardcover jacket

      The Design of Childhood
    • Writing About Architecture

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Extraordinary architecture addresses so much more than mere practical considerations. It inspires and provokes while creating a seamless experience of the physical world for its users. It is the rare writer that can frame the discussion of a building in a way that allows the reader to see it with new eyes. Writing About Architecture is a handbook on writing effectively and critically about buildings and cities. Each chapter opens with a reprint of a significant essay written by a renowned architecture critic, followed by a close reading and discussion of the writer's strategies. Lange offers her own analysis using contemporary examples as well as a checklist of questions at the end of each chapter to help guide the writer. This important addition to the Architecture Briefs series is based on the author's design writing courses at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. Lange also writes a popular online column for Design Observer and has written for Dwell, Metropolis, New York magazine, and The New York Times. Writing About Architecture includes analysis of critical writings by Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael Sorkin, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Jane Jacobs. Architects covered include Marcel Breuer, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Field Operations, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Frederick Law Olmsted, SOM, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

      Writing About Architecture
    • "J'ai voulu montrer le calvaire que vivent des femmes comme moi. Dénoncer le silence de ceux qui savent mais se taisent. Et répondre à ceux qui se demandent pourquoi une femme battue a tant de mal à quitter son tortionnaire. " Sans doute Alexandra est-elle au début restée par amour. Il y a eu les promesses, également : "Je ne recommencerai plus". Puis les coups à nouveau, les insultes, les humiliations, les viols, les strangulations, la peur. C'est la peur qui empêche de partir. Peur de se retrouver à la rue avec ses quatre enfants, peur des représailles sur ses proches si elle se réfugiait chez eux. Peur des menaces directes de son mari : "Si tu fais ça, je te tuerai." Le soir du drame, Alexandra lui a dit qu'elle allait s'en aller. La fureur de son dernier étranglement l'a terrifiée au point de provoquer son geste fatal. En reconnaissant, dans son cas, la légitime défense, la justice française a braqué les projecteurs sur les victimes des violences conjugales. Et le témoignage digne et bouleversant d'Alexandra Lange, adressé à nous tous, est aussi un appel à l'aide pour ces femmes en danger.

      Acquittée. Je l'ai tué pour ne pas mourir
    • In der pädagogischen Arbeit steht die professionelle Beziehung zwischen Klient und Pädagoge am Anfang. Die Zusammenarbeit mit Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung gestaltet sich oftmals nicht einfach. Verfügt einer der Partner nicht über die notwendigen zwischenmenschlichen Kompetenzen zur Konfliktverarbeitung, lassen sich Spannungen schwer regulieren. Probleme im sozialen Umgang und in der Kommunikation, fehlende Flexibilität im Handeln, stereotype Verhaltensmuster sowie ein augenscheinlich eingeschränktes Interesse am Aufbau einer dialogischen Beziehung können Folgen sein. Alexandra Lange beschreibt einen handlungsorientierten Zugangsweg, mit dem ein besseres Verständnis für die Problemlage der Beziehungspartner gefunden werden kann. Dabei stehen die Besonderheiten und speziellen Bedürfnisse von Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung im Fokus, um die Klienten in der Ausdifferenzierung ihrer Beziehungsfähigkeit zu unterstützen. Welche Faktoren im Lebensalltag wirken besonders belastend für den Aufbau von Beziehungen? Ausgewählte psychotherapeutische Erklärungsansätze liefern den theoretischen Rahmen für die beschriebenen pädagogischen Interventionsmöglichkeiten. Die Autorin weist Pädagogen den Weg zu Handlungsalternativen, um festgefahrene Beziehungsstrukturen aufzubrechen und Freiraum für Lernprozesse zu ermöglichen.

      Beziehungsfähig trotz geistiger Behinderung