Books In Brief: Ada on Architecture, Ames' Alcoholic Adventures

⇒ Out this week from Walker & Co. is half a century’s worth of criticism penned by the one, the only, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ada Louise Huxtable. On Architecture: Collected Reflections of a Century of Change looks at “some of the twentieth century’s best—and worst—architectural masters and projects” and what followed. Come for the primer on skyscraper history, stay for the up close-and-personal look at the Colt Firearms Building.