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Witold Rybczynski

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March 01, 1943 in Edinburgh, The United Kingdom

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http://www.witoldrybczynski.com/

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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.

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Precedent and Theory

Architecture, like common law, is based on precedents rather than theories. Great buildings are always, to some extent mysteries, and they must be experienced first-hand if their greatness is to be understood. That is why architects have always travelled in order to examine, measure, sketch, and photograph, in an attempt to plumb the mystery. So it would come as a surprise to most people to dis...

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Books by Witold Rybczynski

Average rating: 3.69 · 1,618 ratings · 285 reviews · 29 distinct works

	Home: A Short History of an Idea 3.83 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century 3.90 avg rating — 230 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the 3.46 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw 3.61 avg rating — 147 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Most Beautiful House in the World 3.69 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture 3.74 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	City Life: Urban Expectations In A New World 3.57 avg rating — 157 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities 3.51 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Look of Architecture 3.58 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Waiting for the Weekend 3.48 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Witold Rybczynski

“I enjoy visiting building sites. Unlike the ordered anonymity of office bureaucracy or the featureless regularity of a factory assembly line, a building site appears disorderly and chaotic. In fact, there is organization, but it is a loose orchestration of many separate trademen, working side by side but not necessarily together.”
― Witold Rybczynski, Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture

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“There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.”
― Witold Rybczynski, Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture