The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

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…

- Ada Louise Huxtable

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative…

- Ada Louise Huxtable

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that …

- Ada Louise Huxtable

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or …

- Ada Louise Huxtable

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in ter…

- Ada Louise Huxtable

Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between t…

- Ada Louise Huxtable

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

- Ada Louise Huxtable

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

- Ada Louise Huxtable