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Home: A Short History of an Idea

Home: A Short History of An Idea is a book published in 1986 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.


A Clearing in the Distance

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published in 1999, by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial

Noted architectural critic Witold Rybczynski wrote that the monument is "poorly done," likening its precast concrete slab walls to "mammoth Lego blocks."

Museum of Arts and Design

However, the museum's plans to radically alter the building's original design by Edward Durell Stone touched off a preservation battle joined by Tom Wolfe, Chuck Close, Frank Stella, Robert A. M. Stern, Columbia art history department chairman Barry Bergdoll, New York Times' architecture critics Herbert Muschamp and Nicolai Ouroussoff, urbanist scholar Witold Rybczynski, among others.


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