Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski (born in 1943, in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a Canadian architect, professor and writer.

Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He received Bachelor of Architecture (1966) and Master of Architecture (1972) degrees from McGill University in Montreal.

Rybczynski has written more than 200 articles and papers on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology, many of which are aimed at a non-technical readership and have earned considerable readership and respect. Currently, he writes many of these articles as architecture critic for "Slate".

After several years spent teaching at McGill University, he now lives in Philadelphia and is the Martin and Margy Myerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.

Awards and recognition

His book "" was nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award for non-fiction.

His book "" won the Anthony J. Lukas Prize and was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.

In 2007 he was the recipient of the Vincent Scully Prize.

Bibliography

*"" (1980)
*"" (1983)
*"" (1986)
*"The Most Beautiful House in the World" (1989)
*"Waiting for the Weekend" (1991)
*"" (1991)
*"" (1992)
*"" (1993)
*"" (1995)
*"" (1999)
*"" (2000)
*"The Look of Architecture" (2001)
*"" (2002)
*"" (2006), co-written with Laurie Olin
*"Last Harvest: How A Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000027963,00.html Author page at Penguin Canada]
* [http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/rybczyn.html Faculty page at University of Pennsylvania]