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Mar 13, 2019 · Ada Louise Huxtable made history as the first full-time architecture critic at a US newspaper when she joined the New York Times, and was later awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1970
Jan 8, 2013 · Ada Louise Huxtable, who pioneered modern architectural criticism in the pages of The New York Times, celebrating buildings that respected human dignity and civic history — and memorably ...
Learn about the life and career of Ada Louise Huxtable, a powerful and influential architecture critic who shaped the tastes and values of the public. Explore her achievements, awards, writings, and legacy in this comprehensive biography.
Jan 18, 2013 · Everyone has a favorite quote from the architecture critic par excellence, Ada Louise Huxtable. A pithy one dates to 1973: “The let-them-eat-travertine perfectionism of SOM superstar Gordon Bunshaft is seldom less belligerently antihuman these days,” she wrote in the New York Times about an office building in New York.
Jan 8, 2013 · Huxtable was the first architecture critic for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and wrote 10 books on the field. She influenced generations of critics and readers with her insightful and authoritative reviews of buildings and urban design.
Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013) When Ada Louise Huxtable began her career at the New York Times in 1963, she was the first full-time architecture critic on an American news paper. When she departed in 1981 for the next phase of her career—she was a member of the first class of MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellows—almost every major ...
Jan 7, 2013 · Ada Louise Huxtable at her New York apartment on March 7, 1974. Image Courtesy Dorothy Alexander We mourn the death of Ada Louise Huxtable, who set the standard for architectural criticism in our time.
