Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (b. March 14, 1921, in New York, NY) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Events 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar In 1970 she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished criticism. The Pulitzer Prize, ˈpʊlɨtsɚ PULL-it-sər is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in Newspaper journalism, " Her father, Louis, worked in New Zealand at the Department of Inland Revenue; her mother, Sonja, was also an accountant at the Inland Revenue. She has a brother, Johan.
Ada Louise Landman received an A. B. (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, CUNY in 1941. Hunter College High School|Hunter College Elementary School Hunter College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York In 1942, she married industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable, and continued graduate study at New York University from 1942-50. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. She served as Curatorial Assistant for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1946-50. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth She was a contributing editor to Progressive Architecture and Art in America from 1950-63 before being named the first architecture critic at The New York Times, a post she held from 1963-82. She has received grants from the Graham Foundation for a number of projects, including the book "Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard?".
She is currently the architecture critic for The Wall Street Journal.
John Costonis, writing of how public aesthetics is shaped, used her as a prime example of an influential media critic, remarking that "the continuing barrage fired from [her] Sunday column. . . had New York developers, politicians, and bureaucrats, ducking for years. " He reproduces a cartoon in which construction workers, at the base of a building site with a foundation and a few girders lament that "Ada Louise Huxtable already doesn't like it!" (Costonis,1989)
Carter Wiseman writes, "Huxtable's insistence on intellectual rigor and high design standards made her the conscience of the national architectural community. " (Wiseman, 2000)
She has written over ten books on architecture, including a 2004 biography of Frank Lloyd Wright for the Penguin Lives series. Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8 1867 &ndash April 9 1959 was an American (of Welsh descent Architect, Interior designer, Writer, and educator who
References
- Costonis, John J (1989). Icons and Aliens. University of Illinois Press, 53. ISBN 0-252-01553-3.
- Wiseman, Carter (2000). Twentieth-Century American Architecture. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32054-5.
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