Ada Louise Huxtable
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"Ada Louise Huxtable" was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The esteemed architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner for architectural criticism, said of Huxtable: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue." "She was a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved," said architect Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.

Image:NYP LOC5.jpg/thumb/right/The concourse in 1962 of Pennsylvania Station (New York City)/Penn Station, two years before demolition. "Not that Penn Station is the Parthenon," Ada Louise Huxtable wrote, "but it might as well be because we can never again afford a nine-acre structure of superbly detailed travertine, any more than we could build one of solid gold. It is a monument to the lost art of magnificent construction, other values aside."

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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

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In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.

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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.

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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

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Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor and objects of civic pride. Now they are caverns of gloom.

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Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.

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