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The Most Beautiful House in the World
"A winning book, a pleasure to read...a revelation about what architects actually do and how they go about doing it." -Los Angeles Times Witold Rybezynski takes us on an …
Home: A Short History of an Idea
Walk through five centuries of homes both great and small--from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to today's Ralph Lauren-designed environments--on a house tour like …
How Architecture Works
An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working …
The Look of Architecture
One of the nation's foremost experts on architecture discusses the role of style in the "language" of the discipline, and shows how Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Allan Greenberg, …
Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
From the opening sentences of his first book on architecture, Home, Witold Rybczynski seduced readers into a new appreciation of the spaces they live in. He also introduced us to …
The Biography of a Building
The Biography of a Building tells the remarkable story of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, built to contain Sir Robert and Lady …
Views of Seaside
Seaside, Florida, is a town designed as an "ideal" community, where houses have front porches and verandas, picket fences, sleeping porches, where streets are carved and paved with …
Makeshift Metropolis
In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and "Slate "architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just …
Charleston Fancy
A captivating chronicle of building in modern-day Charleston, making a case for architecture based on historical precedent, local context, and the ability to delight Charleston, …
Mysteries of the Mall and Other Essays
A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homesIn Mysteries of the Mall, Witold Rybczynski, the author of How Architecture Works, casts a …
A Journey through Texas
Before he became America's foremost landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was by turns a surveyor, merchant seaman, farmer, magazine publisher, and traveling …