Witold Rybczynski (born 1 March 1943) is a Canadian American architect, professor and writer. He is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.
Books in order of publication:
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)
Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
