“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.”

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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About Ada Louise Huxtable

Critic • American

Ada Louise Huxtable was a pioneering American architecture critic and writer. She served as the architecture critic for The New York Times from 1963 to 1982, where she championed historic preservation and thoughtful...

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