Ada Louise Huxtable, Kicked a Building Lately?, First Edition, 1976, Near Fine HC w/DJ

Huxtable, Ada Louise. New York: Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Company, 1976.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, HC, 8vo, 9 1/2" x 6 1/2", 304 pp. 

ISBN: 0812906306

First Edition, hardcover in black cloth. Some sunning to edges and a previous seller's sticker to the back pastedown. Very Good gray dust jacket, light sunning, 1/4" closed tear to front panel, minor bump to tail, and some wear to tips and head. 304 pp. Includes black-and-white images of interiors and exteriors, showcasing a variety of architectural designs. Ada Louise Huxtable, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American architecture critic and writer, separates this book into five sections that celebrate the growing cities with the variety of buildings being constructed, as well as looking back at past designs and how they shaped the future. Beautifully produced book in which Huxtable plainly lays out her criticism of the past, present, and future of urban planning.