A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these gateways to the cities were palaces of splendor and objects of civic pride. Now they are caverns of gloom.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
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.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
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.
– Ada Louise Huxtable
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.