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“All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.”

Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

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Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable was an influential American architectural critic, born on March 14, 1921, in New York. Her career began in the 1950s, and she was the first critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for her work. Huxtable was known for her sharp observations and profound analyses, which had a significant impact on the architecture and urban planning industries. more

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“Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.”

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“California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.”

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“One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.”

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

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Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

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“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

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“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”

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Book:The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style

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

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Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.”

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Book:On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

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“There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.”

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“Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.”

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Author:Ada Louise Huxtable