An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
About Ada Louise Huxtable
Ada Louise Huxtablewas an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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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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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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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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