Architect Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

“No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.”

Ada Louise Huxtable

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One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate…

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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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the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the…

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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…

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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

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Every generation tailors history to its taste.

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

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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

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Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

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The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

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