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Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.

Ada Louise Huxtable
Architecture is a very real and important art; it affects us all so directly. You must judge it in terms of problem-solving in this uneasy, difficult combination of structure and art.

Ada Louise Huxtable
I wish people would stop asking me what my favorite buildings are. I do not think it really matters very much what my personal favorites are, except as they illuminate principles of design and execution useful and essential to the collective spirit that we call society. For irreplaceable examples of that spirit I will do real battle.

Ada Louise Huxtable
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected — accessible and user-friendly.

Ada Louise Huxtable
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own.... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

Ada Louise Huxtable
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Ada Louise Huxtable