Ada Louise Huxtable Leaves Archive and Estate to Getty Research Institute Along with the legacy of first-rate criticism she left to the world, the pioneering architectural critic and historian Ada Louise Huxtable, who died at the age of 91 on Monday, has bequeathed her archives and estate to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, characterized the deal as "something of a surprise given the critic's close association with New York and the East Coast." Ms. Huxtable joined The New York Times in 1963 as the first full-time architecture critic at an American newspaper. More recently, she wrote for The Wall Street Journal. The bequest, which was completed last month, includes Ms. Huxtable's archives as well as those of her husband, Garth Huxtable, an industrial designer, and an apartment in New York City and a house in Marblehead, Mass. Speaking to Mr. Hawthorne, Wim de Wit, head of the department of architecture and contemporary art at the Getty Research Institute, celebrated Ms. Huxtable as someone who "spoke powerfully as a woman in this world of men, the architecture world of the 1960s and '70s."