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March 21, 1921 in New York, The United States

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Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (b. March 14, 1921, in New York, NY) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished criticism." Her father, Michael Landman, was co-author (with his brother, Rabbi Isaac Landman) of the play "A Man of Honor."

Ada Louise Landman received an A. B. (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, CUNY in 1941. In 1942, she married industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable, and continued graduate study at New York University from 1942-50. She served as Curatorial Assistant for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1946-50. She was a contributing editor to Progressive Architecture and Art in America from 1950-63 before being named the...more

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Books by Ada Louise Huxtable

Average rating: 3.70 · 183 ratings · 41 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Frank Lloyd Wright 3.60 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kicked a Building Lately? 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Architecture, Anyone? Cautionary Tales of the Building Art 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard? 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	My rating:
	Pier Luigi Nervi 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger: An Anthology Of Architectural Delights And Disasters 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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“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

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“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 before.”
― Ada Louise Huxtable, On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

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