“You start by saying, “This building is good and this is why. This is worth caring about.” That basic understanding and appreciation is what criticism must carry above all. Then, what you do about it is next. I am trying to inform people about what the issues are and how to deal with them, and they’re very complicated issues.” - Ada Louise Huxtable Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Shaped our Times.
"Ada Louise Huxtable (1921 –2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. The esteemed architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner for architectural criticism, said of Huxtable: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue." "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 2013" - Wikipedia
Particular Passions: "Tantalizing glimpses into the lives of women who have not only made a living at their own “particular passion,” but have become well known, even world renowned, for doing work they love." — Christian Science Monitor
Ada Louise Huxtable's oral biography is included in "Particular Passions: Talks with Women who Shaped Our Times." available on Amazon and Apple.
Particular Passions: "Tantalizing glimpses into the lives of women who have not only made a living at their own “particular passion,” but have become well known, even world renowned, for doing work they love." — Christian Science Monitor