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Lecture by Ada Louise Huxtable on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, at 6:00 PM at the Boston Athenaeum.
From the Athenaeum description:
In her latest book, Ada Louise Huxtable bears witness to some of the twentieth century's best - and worst - architectural masters and projects.
With a perspective of more than four decades, Huxtable examines the century?s modernist beginnings and then turns her critic?s eye to the seismic shift in style, function, and fashion that occurred midcentury?all leading to a dramatic new architecture of the twenty-first century. Much of the writing in On Architecture has not appeared in book form, and Huxtable?s many admirers will be delighted to once again have access to her elegant, impassioned opinions, insights, and wisdom.
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, Massachusetts.
To Reserve: The fee for this event will be $10. Reservations are required but will
not be accepted until October 7. Please call the Athen?um?s events reservation
line, 617-720-7600.
From the Athenaeum description:
In her latest book, Ada Louise Huxtable bears witness to some of the twentieth century's best - and worst - architectural masters and projects.
With a perspective of more than four decades, Huxtable examines the century?s modernist beginnings and then turns her critic?s eye to the seismic shift in style, function, and fashion that occurred midcentury?all leading to a dramatic new architecture of the twenty-first century. Much of the writing in On Architecture has not appeared in book form, and Huxtable?s many admirers will be delighted to once again have access to her elegant, impassioned opinions, insights, and wisdom.
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, Massachusetts.
To Reserve: The fee for this event will be $10. Reservations are required but will
not be accepted until October 7. Please call the Athen?um?s events reservation
line, 617-720-7600.