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Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

Ada Louise Huxtable quotes

American Critic March 14, 1921

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When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place. Visitors and even natives rarely use the words urban character or environmental style, but that is what they are reacting to with awe in the presence of massed, concentrated, steel, stone, power and life. Ada Louise Huxtable
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way... Ada Louise Huxtable
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable quote: "The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be..."
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable quote: "An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like..."
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable quote: "Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more..."
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station. Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable quote: "A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtable quote: "Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built..."
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. Ada Louise Huxtable

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