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Ada Louise Huxtable, who pioneered modern architectural criticism in the pages of The New York Times, celebrating buildings that respected human dignity and.!
Huxtable studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU and worked as an assistant curator in the architecture and design.
Ada Louise Huxtable
American architecture writer (–)
Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, – January 7, ) 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.[1] In , she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
In , she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner () for architectural criticism, said in "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue."[2] "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.[3]
Early life
Huxtable was born on March 14, , in New York City to Leah Rosenthal Landman and Michael Louis Landman.[2]