Ada Louise Huxtable - The tall building artistically reconsidered (1984)

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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

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

Ada Louise Huxtable
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's antiquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic.... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Ada Louise Huxtable
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.

Ada Louise Huxtable
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.

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

Ada Louise Huxtable
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age.... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

Ada Louise Huxtable