"A disaster where marble has been substituted for……" — Ada Louise Huxtable
"A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
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Ada Louise Huxtable
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11 Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled…
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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…
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,…
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,
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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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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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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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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York…
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.
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