Tag witold rybczynski

January 20, 2021
in A Personal Canon, Art & Architecture

A Personal Canon: Witold Rybczynski on Five Influential Texts

January 20, 2021
in A Personal Canon, Art & Architecture

The five titles I have chosen are a mixed bag, but then so are the more than twenty books I have written over the last four decades, covering architecture, furniture, tools, urbanism, real estate, history, and biography. Yet when I look at my library, much reduced since our last downsizing

December 1, 2020
in Current Affairs

Charleston Fancy

December 1, 2020
in Current Affairs

Witold Rybczynski— Cities endure. Nine out of ten seventeenth-century Londoners lost their homes in the Great Fire, yet they rebuilt and the city pulled through; Berlin was devastated by the Second World War and divided during the Cold War, yet it stubbornly persevered; New Orleans was decimated by Hurricane Katrina,