When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place. Visitors and even natives rarely use the words urban character or environmental style, but that is what they are reacting to with awe in the presence of massed, concentrated, steel, stone, power and life.

" "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.