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In 1963 Ada Louise Huxtable became the first architecture critic for the New York Times. She believed fervently that architecture is “the art we cannot afford to ignore" and this was never so apparent as when she wrote about the demolition of Penn Station. Read about this remarkable woman and how she championed New York's cityscape.

Read more about her here in this 2013 article from The Nation.