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"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful." -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (b. March 14, 1921, in New York, NY) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for "distinguished criticism during 1969".

Her father, Michael Landman, was co-author (with his brother, Rabbi Isaac Landman) of the play "A Man of Honor."

Ada Louise Landman received an A. B. (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, CUNY in 1941. In 1942, she married industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable, and continued graduate study at New York University from 1942-50. She served as Curatorial Assistant for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1946-50. She was a contributing editor to Progressive Architecture and Art in America from 1950-63 before being named the first architecture critic at The New York Times, a post she held from 1963-82. She has received grants from the Graham Foundation for a number of projects, including the book "Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard?".

She is currently the architecture critic for The Wall Street Journal.

John Costonis, writing of how public aesthetics is shaped, used her as a prime example of an influential media critic, remarking that "the continuing barrage fired from [her] Sunday column... had New York developers, politicians, and bureaucrats, ducking for years." He reproduces a cartoon in which construction workers, at the base of a building site with a foundation and a few girders lament that "Ada Louise Huxtable already doesn't like it!" (Costonis,1989)

Carter Wiseman writes, "Huxtable's insistence on intellectual rigor and high design standards made her the conscience of the national architectural community." (Wiseman, 2000)

She has written over ten books on architecture, including a 2004 biography of Frank Lloyd Wright for the Penguin Lives series.

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Total Books: 25
ARCHITECTURE ANYONE
Architecture Anyone (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780394529097
ISBN-10: 039452909X
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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Architecture Anyone Cautionary Tales of the Building Art
Architecture Anyone Cautionary Tales of the Building Art [United States and Canadian Rights] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780520061958
ISBN-10: 0520061950
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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Built in the USA American Buildings from Airports to Zoos
Built in the Usa American Buildings From Airports to Zoos [Building watchers series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780891331186
ISBN-10: 0891331182
Genres: Nonfiction, Engineering & Transportation
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El rascacielos La busqueda de un estilo
El Rascacielos La Busqueda De Un Estilo (Other)
ISBN-13: 9788486763022
ISBN-10: 8486763029
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Frank Lloyd Wright A Life
Frank Lloyd Wright a Life [Penguin Lives] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780143114291
ISBN-10: 0143114298
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright [Penguin Lives] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780670033423
ISBN-10: 0670033421
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Engineering & Transportation
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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Goodbye history hello hamburger An anthology of architectural delights and disasters
Goodbye History Hello Hamburger an Anthology of Architectural Delights and Disasters [Landmark reprint series] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780891331193
ISBN-10: 0891331190
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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Inventing Reality Architectural Themes and Variations
Kicked a Building Lately
Kicked a Building Lately (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780520062078
ISBN-10: 0520062078
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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Making Architecture The Getty Center
On Architecture Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
Pier Luigi Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi [Masters of World Architecture] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780807602232
ISBN-10: 080760223X
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TALL BUILDING ARTISTICALLY REC
Tall Building Artistically Rec (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394537733
ISBN-10: 0394537734
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered The Search for a Skyscraper Style
The Unreal America Architecture and Illusion
The Unreal America Architecture and Illusion (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780614280586
ISBN-10: 0614280583
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Unreal America Architecture and Illusion
Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard
Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780520062054
ISBN-10: 0520062051
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
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Zeit fr Wolkenkratzer
Zeit Fr Wolkenkratzer [German Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783885310570
ISBN-10: 3885310570
Genre: Science & Math
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