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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.

    Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
  • Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

    Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
  • Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

    Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Ada Louise Huxtable

  • Born: March 14, 1921
  • Died: January 7, 2013
  • Occupation: Architectural Critic