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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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Ada Louise Huxtable
Age: 91 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 14
Died: 2013
Died: January 7
Architectural Critic
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New York City
New York
Ada Louise Landman
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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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 New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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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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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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Some people wait constructively they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
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The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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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 triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
Ada Louise Huxtable
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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