ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE

When she died on January 7, Ada Louise Huxtable, America's first full-time architecture critic to write for a newspaper, went out the way she came in. She joined the New York Times in 1963 and a half-century later she continued to write intelligent and at times lacerating architectural criticism for the Wall Street Journal. In her last published piece, she heaped scorn upon architect Norman Foster's scheme to gut the stacks of the landmark New York Public Library. It was published three weeks before her death at the age of 91.

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ON WASHINGTON, D.C. BUILDING HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS

I've been procrastinating this one for a long time. I generally avoid taking stands on controversial local issues in Washington, where I have lived for over four decades, and I am especially uncomfortable being at odds with people I respect and consider friends.

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INSIDE THE TIPI WITH ROLAND REED

By the dawn of the twentieth century, the era of the American West as a frontier had all but ended. At the same time, the life and existence of its original inhabitants, the American Indian, had reached a point of change where it would never again be as it was.   (Published 2012.1114)

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Aedas Group Losses Widen — BD (registration required), 2012.1217

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a Tip of the Fedora to St. Joseph Hospital's Postwar Cool — WBEZ, 2012.1217

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Save Preston Bus Station Petition Fails to Attract Signatures — BD (registration required), 2012.1217

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