Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is architecture critic for Slate. His new book on American building, Last Harvest, has just been published. (May 2007)
From the Review
May 10, 2007: Genius in Concrete
Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century by Peter Jones
August 10, 2006: Shipping News
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World by Brian J. Cudahy
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
June 9, 2005: How Things Work
Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design by Henry Petroski
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering by Henry Petroski
October 21, 2004: The Triumph of a Distinguished Failure
The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste by Geoffrey Scott
July 18, 2002: Palladio Forever!
The Four Books on Architecture by Andrea Palladio,translated from the Italian by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield
The Drawings of Andrea Palladio by Douglas Lewis
June 21, 2001: City Lights
The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century Joseph Rykwert
Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America Pietro S. Nivola
August 13, 1998: Partner in the Park
Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux by Francis R. Kowsky
February 5, 1998: The Fifth City
A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger
May 15, 1997: This New House
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollan
October 31, 1996: Losers
The New American Ghetto by Camilo José Vergara
November 16, 1995: Design for Living
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America by Henry Petroski
July 14, 1994: Mysteries of the Mall
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson
July 15, 1993: The Mystery of Cities
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof
The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History by Spiro Kostof
Cities Without Suburbs by David Rusk
November 19, 1992: Pale Fire
Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion by Mark C. Taylor
February 13, 1992: Collapsing Modernism
The Details of Modern Architecture by Edward R. Ford
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade by Vincent Scully
December 20, 1990: Getting Away from It All
The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses by James S. Ackerman
The Architect and the American Country House, 1890–1940 by Mark Alan Hewitt, architectural photographs by Richard Cheek
The American Country House by Roger W. Moss
The American Country House by Clive Aslet
Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes by Allan D. Wallis
November 9, 1989: Good Housekeeping
Culture and Comfort: People, Parlors, and Upholstery, 1850–1930 by Katherine C. Grier
Books by Witold Rybczynski
Perfect House: A Journey with the Master Architect Andrea Palladio (2002)
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (2000)
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century (1999)
City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
A Place for Art: The Architecture of the National Gallery of Canada = Un Ieu Pour L'art: L'architecture Du Musee Des Beaux-Arts Du Canada (1993)
Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture (1993)
Waiting for the Weekend (1991)
The Most Beautiful House in the World (1989)
Home: A Short History of an Idea (1986)
Taming the Tiger: The Struggle to Control Technology (1983)
Paper Heroes: A Review of Appropriate Technology (1980)
Low-Cost Technology Options for Sanitation: A State-Of-The-Art Review and Annotated Bibliography (1978)