Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Tombstone, Tragedy, Triumph

  "PG&E's real estate rumors" by David Lazarus, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2001.

• Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  New York, Blow, Cities

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

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Cutting, History

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Memorial, Presidential, Age

  "An Appraisal" by Ada Louise Huxtable, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 1971.

• The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Past, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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