Huxtable, Ada Louise
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- New York times WWW site, Jan. 8, 2013(in obituary published Jan. 7: Ada Louise Huxtable; b. Ada Louise Landman, Mar. 14, 1921; m. L. Garth Huxtable (d. 1989); d. Monday [Jan. 7, 2013], Manhattan, aged 91; pioneered modern architectural criticism in the pages of The New York times, celebrating buildings that respected human dignity and civic history, and memorably scalding those that did not)
- Her Pier Luigi Nervi, 1960.
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Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was 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. In 1970, she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 1981, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) for architectural criticism, said in 1996: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue." "She was a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved," said architect Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
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