We will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed. — Ada (image via The Ada Louise Huxtable Archive) She hated demolition. She hated Madison Square Garden (as she so famously wrote at the time, "we deserve tin-can architecture in a tin-horn culture"). She hated "building big" without purpose and "colonial Williamsburging" without thought. And, oddly enough, she even hated the renovation of the New York Public Library.
A Woman to Know: Ada Louise Huxtable
A Woman to Know: Ada Louise Huxtable
A Woman to Know: Ada Louise Huxtable
We will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed. — Ada (image via The Ada Louise Huxtable Archive) She hated demolition. She hated Madison Square Garden (as she so famously wrote at the time, "we deserve tin-can architecture in a tin-horn culture"). She hated "building big" without purpose and "colonial Williamsburging" without thought. And, oddly enough, she even hated the renovation of the New York Public Library.