Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Disaster

Imagination

Marble

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

Agency

Practice

Self

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.

Dubious

Jobs

Would Be

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Art

Cutting

History

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There’s no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Creative

Creativity

Past

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

Creative

Planning

Synthesis

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

British

Shopping

United States

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.

Consistency

Paris

Style

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

Home

Matter

May

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Obsolete

Railroads

Today

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Art

British

Clerks

Clothes

Competence

Computer

Consistency

Creative

Creativity

Cutting

Disaster

Dubious

Endless

Feelings

Friendly

History

Home

Imagination

Jobs

Love

Lying

Marble

Matter

May

Mean

New York

Obsolete

Palaces

Paris

Past

People

Planning

Practice

Purpose

Railroads

Real

Self

Shopping

Skills

Steel

Stones

Style

Summer

Synthesis

Today

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Two

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Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There’s no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

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