Ada Louise HuxtableThinkers

Architecture is a form-­maker, problem?solver and environment?creator, and the international exposition is its laboratory.

Black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

A City is any place where men have built a jail, a bagnio, a gallows, a morgue, a church, a hospital, a saloon, and laid out a cemetery - hence the center of life.

A City is, in its most real sense, its buildings. Whatever the life, spirit , activity or achievements of the city may be, they are expressed in the mass of asphalt and brick.

New York City is the Death-Wish City. Ibid.

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.

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

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

Water is the wine of architecture.