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Ada Louise Huxtable
The Boston Globe; 8/17/1997; John Koch, Globe Staff; 847 words
; Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's latest book is The Unreal America. Once with The New York Times, she writes for The Wall Street Journal and summers in Marblehead ...
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BY ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE VIKING, 251 PP., $19.95
The Boston Globe; 12/5/2004; AMANDA HELLER; 600 words
; ... the eminent architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable in this biography of Frank Lloyd ... growing library of Wrightiana. Huxtable gamely takes it all on not just ... latter part of the book is where Huxtable's descriptive powers really come ...
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Piano, Gehry, Huxtable, and Mayne.(EDITORIAL)
Building Design & Construction; 6/1/2005; Cassidy, Robert; 468 words
; ... After the opening festivities, Piano, Frank Gehry, and Ada Louise Huxtable engaged in a lively discussion of contemporary museum ... with utmost confidence, It's going to be perfect. Huxtable, the first Pulitzer Prize winner for distinguished ...
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Are architects selling America's soul?
The Boston Globe; 3/28/1997; Peter G. Gosselin, Globe Staff; 795 words
; ... Architecture and Illusion By Ada Louise Huxtable New Press, 188 pp., illustrated ... American architectural criticism, Ada Louise Huxtable, is out to savage the schlockmeisters ... Without the strong voice of Ada Louise Huxtable to raise the cry, we are at ...
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Raising a voice against schlock
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/16/1997; PETER G. GOSSELIN; 762 words
; ... Architecture and Illusion. By Ada Louise Huxtable. New Press. 188 pages, illustrated ... American architectural criticism, Ada Louise Huxtable, is out to savage the schlockmeisters ... same vulgar precincts? Isn't Huxtable's very choice of targets convincing ...
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Best of the Rest
Seven Days; 4/30/2003; Maurice, Donald; 1369 words
; Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of American architecture critics ... over substance, of artifice over art." Huxtable was railing against "Disneyfication ... warned in advance that this critic shares Huxtable's proclivities. It took the Burlington ...
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(book reviews)
Interior Design; 6/1/1997; Abercrombie, Stanley; 512 words
; The best news that the book column of a design magazine can present is that Ada Louise Huxtable has written a new book. The news today is exceptionally fine, for that new book takes a sharpshooter's aim at many of the things that have made so much recent architecture ... single-family housing, ...
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The shape of architecture bothers a trusted critic A doyenne of design laments a swing toward pessimism
The Boston Globe; 1/24/1993; Robert Campbell; 2328 words
; ... years as architecture critic of The New York Times, Ada Louise Huxtable established herself as the most trusted voice in the ... consumerism. Living both halves of the American dream, Huxtable divides her year between a beloved ranch-house-with-swimming- ...
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Tuning into summer.(Editorials)(Don't miss the free concerts in area parks)(Editorial)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 6/23/2004; 325 words
; ... Summer is the time, says renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes ... can't beat the admission price. To steal a phrase from Huxtable, no matter what other serious business you may have ...
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Inventing American reality. (trends in American architecture and interior design) (Forum)
Interior Design; 2/1/1993; Huxtable, Ada Louise; 6989 words
; ... current design scene by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable. It is based on her Blashfield address given at the ... issue of The New York Review of Books. While Mrs. Huxtable speaks most directly about architecture, we think ...
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