Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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
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
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
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.
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
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 …
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
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 …
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers. - Ada Louise Huxtable
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in ter… - Ada Louise Huxtable
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in ter…
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
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative…
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
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between t…
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style. - Ada Louise Huxtable
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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