Ada Louise Huxtable  

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Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (March 14, 1921 - January 7, 2013) 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."

Selected works

  • Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (2008)
  • On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change (2008)
  • The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion (1999)
  • The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered (1993)
  • Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard? (1989)
  • Kicked A Building Lately? (1989)
  • Architecture, Anyone? Cautionary Tales of the Building Art (1988)
  • Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger: An Anthology of Architectural Delights and Disasters (1986)




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