Women of MAS: Ada Louise Huxtable

This virtual tour will celebrate the seminal architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013). Her pocket guide “Four Walking Tours of Modern Architecture in New York City,” was jointly published by the Municipal Art Society and the Museum of Modern Art in 1961. Retracing the route of one of those midtown tours, we will consider Huxtable’s analysis and discuss subsequent changes to the buildings she examined and their surroundings. We will visit Philip Johnson’s Rockefeller Guest House, two of the city’s earliest Modern townhouses including the home and studio of William Lescaze, the United Nations Headquarters, and some less known Modern gems.

When she was appointed architecture critic for the New York Times in 1963, a position she held until 1982, Ada Louise Huxtable became the first full-time architecture critic at an American newspaper. She received the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism in 1970. Tour guide John Arbuckle is President of the DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State, a local chapter of an international organization dedicated to preserving Modern architecture.

All tours are Eastern Time and last 60 to 90 minutes.

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