Architect Witold Rybczynski is known for his books exploring the most basic questions of the man-made environment. His latest book is called Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville. This is ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Fans of entertaining, beautifully written books about architecture and design need no introduction to Witold Rybczynski, who will speak Thursday at Case Western Reserve University ...

I was raised in New York City, but it wasn’t until I moved to an earthquake-prone metropolis that I began thinking, daily, about buildings. Though I’ve been privy to some significant architectural ...

In 1893, at a banquet at Madison Square Garden in New York, a Chicago architect delivered an impromptu encomium to Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape designer responsible for the grounds of the ...

Rybczynski%E2%80%99s latest essay collection, a sharp culling of his previously published work, may seem at first glance like a World%E2%80%99s Shortest Books entry ...

Wed., Nov. 10, 5:30-7pm. Free and open to the public. Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19107. Register at http://penniur.upenn ...

An architect by training, Witold Rybczynski is one of America’s most accessible and thoughtful critics of the built world. He writes with grace and common sense on subjects ranging from city life to ...

Here I was, interviewing the architect Witold Rybczynski about his new book, an appreciation of the chair and its 5,000-year history, and I was doing it from a standing desk. Nearby, I had a perfectly ...

Overrun by exhibitionists, the memoir has turned spuriously confessional. Yet if there’s one life story that could stand a bit more self-revelation, it’s that of Witold Rybczynski. Is it possible to ...