Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski (born in 1943, in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a Canadian-American architect, professor and writer. Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He received Bachelor of Architecture (1966) and Master of Architecture (1972) degrees from McGill University in Montreal. Rybczynski has written more than 300 articles and papers on the subject of housing, archite... more

Witold Rybczynski (born in 1943, in Edinburgh, Scotland), is a Canadian-American architect, professor and writer. Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He received Bachelor of Architecture (1966) and Master of Architecture (1972) degrees from McGill University in Montreal. Rybczynski has written more than 300 articles and papers on the subject of housing, architecture, and technology, many of which are aimed at a non-technical readership and have earned considerable readership and respect, in a wide variety of magazines, including The Wilson Quarterly. Currently, he writes many of these articles as architecture critic for Slate. After several years spent teaching at McGill University, he now lives in Philadelphia and is the Martin and Margy Myerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Home: A Short History of an Idea was nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award for... less