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Alexandra Lange is an architecture and design critic, and author of Writing about Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in Architectural Record, Dwell, Domus, Metropolis, New York Magazine, and The New York Times. She is co-author, with Jane Thompson, of Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle, 2010). She teaches architecture criticism at the School of Visual Arts.

Ken Friedlein, AIA, is an architect whose firm, Weinstein Friedlein Architects, is based in Carrboro, NC. A native of Baltimore, Ken attended Duke University as an undergraduate (B.A., 1972) and spent 20 years as a newspaper writer and editor, including a Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University in 1977. Leaving journalism in 1989, he was press secretary in Washington, D.C., for late U.S. Senator Terry Sanford, the former Duke president (1969-85) and North Carolina governor (1961-65). Ken returned to North Carolina to study architecture, earning an M.Arch. degree from N.C. State University in 1995, and has been practicing and writing about architecture ever since.