Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (born March 14, 1921, in New York, NY) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for "distinguished criticism during 1969."
Her father, Michael Landman, was co-author (with his brother, Rabbi Isaac Landman) of the play A Man of Honor.
Ada Louise Landman received an A. B. (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, CUNY in 1941. In 1942, she ma...
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Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (born March 14, 1921, in New York, NY) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for "distinguished criticism during 1969."
Her father, Michael Landman, was co-author (with his brother, Rabbi Isaac Landman) of the play A Man of Honor.
Ada Louise Landman received an A. B. (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, CUNY in 1941. In 1942, she married industrial designer L. Garth Huxtable, and continued graduate study at New York University from 1942 to 1950. She served as Curatorial Assistant for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1946 to 50. 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 she held from 1963 to 1982. She has received grants from the Graham Foundation for a number of projects, including the book Will They Ever...
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