Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

" "She was a great lover of cities a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved" said architect Robert A. She was the architecture critic for The Wall Street Journal a position Ada Louise Huxtable took up in 1997. She was a contributing editor to Progressive Architecture and Art in America from 1950 to 1963 before being named the first architecture critic at The New York Times a post Ada Louise Huxtable held from 1963 to 1982.

Stern dean of the Yale University School of Architecture. January 7 2013 in New York City New York) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. M.