Ada Louise Huxtable

“The perennial tragedy of the human condition is that we create ruins. We create ruins and then we worship them.”

“Tear down the library? This is the kind of thing that gives progress a bad name.”

“Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.”

“The building is the vehicle of a client's ego, but you have to be very careful that it is not a monument to the architect's ego.”

“A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.”

“We are not building landmarks, but a livable city. The question is not whether our architecture is historic, but whether it is a product of our own time.”

“Preservation is not about the past, it's about the future. It's about having a future that makes sense.”

“What counts is not what is old or new, but what is good.”

“A building can be a work of art, but it must be a building first. It must work.”

“We have to stop thinking of the city as a collection of individual buildings. We have to start thinking of it as a total environment.”

“Architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.”

“Power and money have never been shy about claiming a place in the sky.”

“You can't have a city without change, but you can have a city with a memory.”

“In the end, it is the scale of the human being that is the measure of all things.”

“The first law of aesthetics is that the human eye is easily bored.”