The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
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… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
