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She received a Pulitzer Prize for "distinguished criticism" in 1970, the first such prize ever awarded. She was the first full-time architecture critic for The New York Times , a post she held from 1973 to 1982. Costonis (1989), writing of how public aesthetics is shaped, used her as a prime example of an influential media critic, remarking that "the continuing barrage fired from {Link without Title} Sunday column... had New York developers, politicians, and bureaucrats, ducking for years." He reproduces a cartoon in which construction workers, at the base of a building site with a foundation a few girders lament that "Ada Louise Huxtable already doesn't like it!" Wiseman (2000) credits her as an influence in the rise of Postmodernism : "Not the least of the reasons for the preeminence of the Postmodernists was the attention lavished on them by the popular press. The phenomenon began with the appointment in 1963 by the ''New York Times'' of Ada Louise Huxtable as ... architecture critic.... Huxtable's insistence on intellectual rigor and high design standards made her the conscience of the national architectural community." She has written over ten books on architecture. REFERENCES |
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