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Ada Louise Huxtable
American
Critic
About the author
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable,
American
Critic
#Washington
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
Ada Louise Huxtable,
American
Critic
#Now
#Will
#Age
#Libraries
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,
American
Critic
#Time
#Right
#Day
#World
#Belief
#Spirit
#Clothes
#Summer
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
Ada Louise Huxtable,
American
Critic
#Saying
#Job
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Ada Louise Huxtable,
American
Critic
#Nothing
#Today
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable,
American
Critic
#Imagination
#Disaster