Witold Rybczynski is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the architecture critic for Slate. His book on American building, Last Harvest, was published in 2007.
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Genius in Concrete
May 10, 2007
Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century
by Peter Jones
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Shipping News
August 10, 2006
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
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How Things Work
June 9, 2005
Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
by Henry Petroski
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
by Henry Petroski
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The Triumph of a Distinguished Failure
October 21, 2004
The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste
by Geoffrey Scott
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Palladio Forever!
July 18, 2002
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
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City Lights
June 21, 2001
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
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Partner in the Park
August 13, 1998
Country, Park & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux
by Francis R. Kowsky
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The Fifth City
February 5, 1998
A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger
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This New House
May 15, 1997
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollan
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Losers
October 31, 1996
The New American Ghetto by Camilo José Vergara
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Design for Living
November 16, 1995
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America by Henry Petroski
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Mysteries of the Mall
July 14, 1994
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by John Brinckerhoff Jackson
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The Mystery of Cities
July 15, 1993
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
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Pale Fire
November 19, 1992
Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion by Mark C. Taylor
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Collapsing Modernism
February 13, 1992
The Details of Modern Architecture by Edward R. Ford
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade by Vincent Scully
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Getting Away from It All
December 20, 1990
The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses
by James S. Ackerman
The Architect and the American Country House, 18901940 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
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Good Housekeeping
November 9, 1989
Culture and Comfort: People, Parlors, and Upholstery, 18501930 by Katherine C. Grier