Ada Louise Huxtable Short Quotes

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Gnomes always draw curtains where there are views.

Ada Louise Huxtable
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

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

Ada Louise Huxtable
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Ada Louise Huxtable
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Ada Louise Huxtable
The skyscraper is Olympian or Orwellian, depending on how you look at it.

Ada Louise Huxtable
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Ada Louise Huxtable
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

Ada Louise Huxtable
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Ada Louise Huxtable
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

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

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A city that is as heartbreaking in its beauty as it is in its poverty and decay. It is still a city of dreams—promised, built, and broken.

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It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

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The search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on.... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

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In New York, the towers of the mammoth World Trade Center rise aggressively over everything else, gleaming like new-minted money — the architecture of power.

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There is a Parkinson-type law that once you provide a super-route, you do not just speed the already stuck cars and trucks on their way, you acquire a lot of new traffic.

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California... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

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Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

Ada Louise Huxtable
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
Years ago there was white flight to the suburbs, the inner cities were crime-ridden, there was a lot of poverty. We still have poverty, but people started moving back to the cities.

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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