Mr. Pearman is the architecture critic of the Sunday Times, London, and the editor of the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Over a career that began in the 1950s, Ms. Huxtable produced a body of criticism as influential and widely read as any other architecture critic's.

WSJ: Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable Dies

Ms. Huxtable was the first winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, in 1970, and was architecture critic of The Wall Street Journal since 1997.

WSJ: Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable Dies

Ms. Huxtable is the Journal's architecture critic.

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So Ms. Deitz became the editor, a role that complemented her own writing as a critic of art, architecture and landscape design.

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"She was a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved, " said Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

WSJ: Architecture Critic Ada Louise Huxtable Dies