Ada Louise Huxtable - Activity Quotes

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If you look at Rockefeller Center in detail, it's a very elegant plan: higher and lower levels that lead you from one to the other, streets cut through to keep the human scale. You always feel you're going around a corner, not around a wind-swept plaza, into some other area that has an inviting activity.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity — if activity is the right word for it — because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

Ada Louise Huxtable