| 1 | Name: | Ms. Ada Louise Huxtable | |
| Institution: | Wall Street Journal & New York Times | ||
| Year Elected: | 1989 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 504. Scholars in the Professions | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1921 | ||
| Death Date: | January 7, 2013 | ||
Pulitzer Prize winner Ada L. Huxtable was for many years the architecture critic for The New York Times. She received her A.B. from Hunter College and did her postgraduate studies at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. Following a stint as assistant curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art (1946-50), Ms. Huxtable became a freelance writer and contributing editor for the publications Progressive Architecture and Art in America (1950-63). She joined The New York Times as architecture critic in 1963 and served on the newspaper's editorial board from 1973 until her retirement in 1982. Ms. Huxtable has also written extensively on architecture for The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of numerous works on architecture, including Classic New York (1964), Kicked a Building Lately? (1973), The Tall Building Artistically Considered: The Search for Skyscraper Style (1985); a biography of Frank Lloyd Wright. (2004) and On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change (2008). She was awarded the Louis Auchincloss Prize at the Museum of the City of New York in December 2008. Ada Louise Huxtable died on January 7, 2013, at the age of 91 in Manhattan. | |||