Ada Louise Huxtable

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

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.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.