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Witold Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh, of Polish parentage, raised in London, and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal, where he also taught for twenty years. He is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also co-edits the Wharton Real Estate Review. Rybczynski has designed and built houses as a registered architect, as well as doing practical experiments in low-cost housing, which took him to Mexico, Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and China. (From www.witoldrybczynski.com)
Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
1999
Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
2019
1995
A Short History of an Idea
1986
A Humanist's Toolkit
2013
From Cornfield to New Town: Real Estate Development from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway
2007
A Journey Through Architecture
1992
Ideas About Cities
2010
And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life
2009
And Other Essays
2015
From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History
2016
A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
2000
The Struggle to Control Technology
1983
2011
A Design History of the Car
2024
2001
1989
A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
2002
An American Villa and Its Makers
2006
1991