Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Critic: ADA Louise Huxtable and the Building of Modern America

The Critic: ADA Louise Huxtable and the Building of Modern America

Cipriani, Christine

Hardcover

Literary FiguresGeneral ArchitectureArchitecture History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1324004096
ISBN13: 9781324004097
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Language: English

For fifty years, Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013) was the preeminent writer on architecture in America and a passionate voice in defense of civic beauty and the public good. The nation's first full-time architecture critic, she won a MacArthur genius grant and the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded for criticism. Christine Cipriani's magisterial biography traces Huxtable's work and profound impact from her denunciation of the destruction of the original Penn Station to her efforts to save the historic core of New England towns and her defense of the New York Public Library. Throughout, she captures Huxtable's eloquence tinged with roguish wit, her fearlessness in the face of political and financial opposition, and her pioneering role in the overwhelmingly male worlds of journalism and architecture. The Critic is a thrilling tour of America's built legacy and a powerful case that Huxtable was one of the great American critics in any field.

Also from

Cipriani, Christine

View All

Also in

Literary Figures

View All