Witold Rybczynski, Author Scribner Book Company $63 (480p) ISBN 978-0-684-82463-5
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 recently opened Columbia Exposition at the Chicago...
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Witold Rybczynski. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-3742-2321-2
The humble chair conceals a surprising amount of world history, sociology, and art in its deceptively simple design, according to design and architecture critic Rybczynski (Mysteries of the Mall). This detailed and comprehensive history of the chair
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Witold Rybczynski. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-26993-7
Reviewed by Anthony PalettaRybczynski’s latest essay collection, a sharp culling of his previously published work, may seem at first glance like a World’s Shortest Books entry (how many mysteries have you found at the Gap?), but the best detectives...
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Witold Rybczynski. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-21174-5
Prize-winning architectural writer and University of Pennsylvania emeritus professor Rybczynski (A Clearing in the Distance) follows in the spirit of Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s classic Experiencing Architecture to supply an ideal layperson’s handbook...
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Viking Books $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-84421-0
With catholic taste, McGill University professor of architecture Rybczynski admires Michael Graves's post-modernist Portland Building in Oregon, Swedish artist Carl Larsson's modified log cabin and the New York Public Library, ``built for the ages.''
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Viking Books $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-670-83001-5
Rybczynski ( Home ) traces the evolution of the seven-day week back to the Babylonian calendar and, more recently, to the Great Depression, when the two-day weekend became institutionalized in the U.S., with shorter work hours viewed as an antidote...
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Viking Books $18.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-81981-2
As a young architect, Rybczynski felt trapped inside a paper world of blueprints and cardboard models and itched for the nitty-gritty experience of building with his own hands. He soon devised a plan of escape. It was modest enough--to design and...
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Scribner Book Company $22 (176p) ISBN 978-0-684-86729-8
Acclaimed hardware, household and landscape writer Rybczynski invites readers to see how the world got screwed--and why it took so long, and how it felt. Romans had most of our hand tools, though cranks are medieval; screws and screwdrivers, however,
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Scribner Book Company $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-81302-8
In this elegant, concise and unfortunately unillustrated historical survey of North American urbanism, architectural historian Rybczynski (The Most Beautiful House in the World) tells more than the familiar story of the life and death of American...
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Penguin Books $15 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-012663-1
An enchanting, strikingly profound meditation on the relationship between lesiure and labor . (July)
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Witold Rybczynski, Author . Oxford $22 (144p) ISBN 978-0-19-513443-8
With his refusal to hide behind the jargon and hype endemic to the profession, and his ability to puncture its pretensions without mean-spiritedness, Rybczynski (Home: A Short History of an Idea) has become a leading writer on architecture. This...
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Scribner Book Company $15 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-82529-8
Rybczynski presents a historical survey of the development of American cities. (Oct.)
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Penguin Books $17 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-016889-1
Rybczynski displays his usual grace, wit and clarity in this selection of previously published essays on architecture. (Dec.)
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Penguin Books $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-010566-7
Rybcznski here describes the act of designing and building a house, questioning the nature of architecture and the architect's role. ``This delightful ramble through the creative process will beguile architecture buffs and general readers alike,''...
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Witold Rybczynski, Author Penguin Books $16 (272p) ISBN 978-0-14-010231-4
In this study of the evolution of domestic living, McGill University architecture professor Rybczynski traces the material and cultural influences that have helped shape our notions of comfort. PW recommended this ""intriguing'' book. (July)
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Witold Rybczynski, Scribner, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6125-5
Rybczynski (A Clearing in the Distance), professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a glimpse of an urban future that might very well serve as a template for cities around the world. Just as the dense and green Israeli city Modi'
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Witold Rybczynski, Author . Scribner $26 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3596-9
Architecture critic Rybczynski spent four and a half years observing the progress of New Daleville, a residential subdivision designed by one of his former students in a "neotraditional" style that builds houses close together on smaller-than
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Witold Rybczynski, Author . Scribner $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0586-3
Italian Renaissance architect and architectural theorist Palladio (1508–1580), whose superb and influential buildings helped define the renaissance, has been lucky in his commentators. Palladio's unique way of relating art to nature and...
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Lester R. Walker, Author, Witold Rybczynski, Author, Witold Rybczynski, Introduction by Overlook Press $22.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-87951-609-3
Anything but plain, the wooden block is the basis for everything from geometric patterns to a cathedral in Block Building for Children by Lester Walker, preface by Witold Rybczynski. Illustrated with 67 black-and-white photographs and 125 line...
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