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'''Witold Rybczynski''' (born 1 March 1943) is a [[Canadian American]] [[architecture|architect]], professor and writer. He is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism|url=https://www.design.upenn.edu/architecture/graduate/people/witold-rybczynski|publisher=University of Pennsylvania}}</ref>
'''Witold Rybczynski''' (born 1 March 1943) is a [[Canadian American]] [[architecture|architect]], professor and writer. He is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name="University of Penssylvania">{{cite web |title=Witold Rybczynski Weitzman |url=https://www.design.upenn.edu/people/witold-rybczynski |website=www.design.upenn.edu |publisher=University of Penssylvania |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in [[Surrey]], England, before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended [[Loyola High School (Montreal)|Loyola College]] in Montreal. He received [[Bachelor of Architecture]] (1966) and [[Master of Architecture]] (1972) degrees from [[McGill University]] in Montreal.
Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in [[Surrey]], England, before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended [[Loyola High School (Montreal)|Loyola College]] in Montreal. He received [[Bachelor of Architecture]] (1966) and [[Master of Architecture]] (1972) degrees from [[McGill University]] in Montreal.<ref name="University of Penssylvania"/><ref name="Brown NYT">{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Patricia |title=A Place to Shelter Dreams |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/08/garden/a-place-to-shelter-dreams.html |website=NYTimes.com |publisher=New York Times |access-date=27 July 2025}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
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==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==
Rybczynski's book ''[[Home: A Short History of an Idea]]'' was nominated for the [[1986 Governor General's Awards|1986 Governor General's Award]] for non-fiction, and ''[[A Clearing in the Distance|A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century]]'' won the [[J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize]]<ref name=Lukas>{{cite web|title=J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners|url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/JAnthonyLukasPrizeProject/Winners.aspx|publisher=Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard|access-date=16 March 2011}}</ref> and was short-listed for the [[Charles Taylor Prize]] in 2000.
Rybczynski's book ''[[Home: A Short History of an Idea]]'' was nominated for the [[1986 Governor General's Awards|1986 Governor General's Award]] for non-fiction, and ''[[A Clearing in the Distance|A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century]]'' won the [[J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize]] and was short-listed for the [[Charles Taylor Prize]] in 2000.<ref name=Lukas>{{cite web|title=J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners|url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/JAnthonyLukasPrizeProject/Winners.aspx|publisher=Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard|access-date=16 March 2011}}</ref><ref name="McGill">{{cite web |title=Rybczynski, Witold - Archival Collections Catalogue |url=https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/rybczynski-witold |website=archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca |publisher=McGill University}}</ref><ref name="Literary Review of Canada">{{cite web |title=Witold Rybczynski Archives |url=https://reviewcanada.ca/contributor/witold-rybczynski/ |website=Literary Review of Canada |publisher=Literary Review of Canada}}</ref>


In 2007 Rybczynski was the recipient of the Seaside Prize and the [[Vincent Scully Prize]], awarded by the [[National Building Museum]]. Rybczynski is a Senior Fellow of the [[Design Futures Council]].<ref>[http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/ "Design Futures Council Senior Fellows"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106072349/http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/ |date=6 November 2007 }}</ref> In 2014 he received a National Design Award for Design Mind from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
In 2007 Rybczynski was the recipient of the Seaside Prize and the [[Vincent Scully Prize]], awarded by the [[National Building Museum]].<ref name="University of Penssylvania"/> Rybczynski is a Senior Fellow of the [[Design Futures Council]].<ref>[http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/ "Design Futures Council Senior Fellows"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106072349/http://www.di.net/about/senior_fellows/ |date=6 November 2007 }}</ref> In 2014 he received a National Design Award for Design Mind from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |title=Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the 15th Annual National Design Awards Smithsonian Institution |url=https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/cooper-hewitt-national-design-museum-announces-winners-15th-annual-national-design-awards |website=www.si.edu |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |language=en}}</ref>


Rybczynski is an honorary fellow of the [[American Institute of Architects]], and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He has received the AIA Collaborative Honors, and the Pennsylvania AIA President's Award. He holds honorary doctorates from McGill University and the [[University of Western Ontario]].
Rybczynski is an honorary fellow of the [[American Institute of Architects]], and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.<ref name="University of Penssylvania"/> He has received the AIA Collaborative Honors, and the Pennsylvania AIA President's Award.<ref name="FMLink">{{cite web |title=AIA announces 2007 architecture awards |url=https://www.fmlink.com/aia-announces-2007-architecture-awards/ |website=FMLink.com |publisher=FMLink}}</ref><ref name="AIA">{{cite web |title=Past Special Award Recipients |url=https://aiapa.org/past-special-award-recipients/ |website=AIA Pennsylvania |publisher=American Institute or Architects - Pennsylvania}}</ref> He holds honorary doctorates from McGill University and the [[University of Western Ontario]].<ref name="University of Penssylvania"/>


==Works==
==Works==

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Witold Rybczynski (born 1 March 1943) is a Canadian American architect, professor and writer. He is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Early life

Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England, before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended Loyola College in Montreal. He received Bachelor of Architecture (1966) and Master of Architecture (1972) degrees from McGill University in Montreal.[1][2]

Career

Rybczynski has written around 300 articles and papers on the subjects of housing, architecture, and technology, many of which are aimed at a non-technical readership. His work has been published in a wide variety of magazines, including The Wilson Quarterly, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker.[3] From 2004 to 2010, he was architecture critic for Slate.[4]

He taught at McGill University (1974–1993) and the University of Pennsylvania (1993–2012), and served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 2004 to 2012.[5] He now lives in Philadelphia and is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He was married to Shirley Hallam, who died in 2021.[6]

Awards and honors

Rybczynski's book Home: A Short History of an Idea was nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award for non-fiction, and A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.[7][8][9]

In 2007 Rybczynski was the recipient of the Seaside Prize and the Vincent Scully Prize, awarded by the National Building Museum.[1] Rybczynski is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.[10] In 2014 he received a National Design Award for Design Mind from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.[11]

Rybczynski is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.[1] He has received the AIA Collaborative Honors, and the Pennsylvania AIA President's Award.[12][13] He holds honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Western Ontario.[1]

Works

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  • Paper Heroes: Appropriate Technology: Panacea or Pipe Dream? (1980)
  • Taming the Tiger: The Struggle to Control Technology (1983)
  • Home: A Short History of an Idea (1986)
  • The Most Beautiful House in the World (1989)
  • Waiting for the Weekend (1991)
  • McGill: A Celebration (1991)
  • Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture (1992)
  • A Place for Art/Un lieu pour l'art: The Architecture of the National Gallery of Canada (1993)
  • City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
  • A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century (1999)
  • One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (2000)
  • The Look of Architecture (2001)
  • The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (2002)
  • Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers (2006), co-written with Laurie Olin
  • Last Harvest: How A Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America (2007)
  • My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life (2009)
  • Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities (2010)
  • The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum (2011)
  • How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit (2013)
  • Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays (2015)
  • Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History (2016) Template:ISBN[14]
  • Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City (2019)
  • The Story of Architecture (2022)
  • The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car (2024)

See also

References

Notes

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  6. ↑ "Portrait of a Marriage in Six Homes, The American Scholar, Winter 2021.
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