Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes


"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
- Ada Louise Huxtable
(Related: Washington)

"The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on."
- Ada Louise Huxtable
(Related: Age, Libraries, Now, Will)

"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."
- Ada Louise Huxtable
(Related: Time, Belief, Clothes, Day, Right, Spirit, Summer, World)

"An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."
- Ada Louise Huxtable
(Related: Job, Saying)

"Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station."
- Ada Louise Huxtable
(Related: Nothing, Today)