Architecture 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

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

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

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

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

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable