On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

Huxtable, Ada Louise

ISBN 10: 0802717675 / ISBN 13: 9780802717672

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802717675
• ISBN 13: 9780802717672
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

For more than half a century, Ada Louise Huxtable's keen eye and vivid writing have reinforced to readers how important architecture is and why it continues to be both controversial and fascinating-making her one of the best-known critics in the world. On Architecture collects the best of Huxtable's writing from the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, and her various books. In these selections, Huxtable examines the twentieth century's most important architectural masters and projects, cataloging the seismic shifts in style, function, and fashion that have led to the dramatic new architecture of the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Ada Louise Huxtable, former New York Times critic, winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, and MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, is currently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal. She is recognized as the founder of contemporary architectural journalism. Her books include The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion, Kicked a Building Lately? and, most recently, a short biography of Frank Lloyd Wright for the Penguin Lives series. She served for many years on the juries of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the American Committee of the Japanese Praemium Imperiale. She lives in New York City and Marblehead, Mass.