Witold Rybczynski

Home: A Short History of An Idea is a book published in 1986 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski. Home won the 1986 Governor General's Award for non-fiction. The book is an extended essay on the evolution of domestic living and culture; Rybczynski recounts the history of the material and …

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw is a book published in 2000 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski. The idea for the book came in 1999 when an editor at The New York Times Magazine asked Rybczynski to write a short essay on the best and most useful common tool …

The Most Beautiful House in the World is a book published in 1989 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski. The Most Beautiful House in the World recounts Rybczynski's his experience building a house for himself and his wife. As he describes the long process of designing and constructing the …

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. It was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.

Waiting for the Weekend is a book published in 1991 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski. In Waiting for the Weekend, Rybczynski recounts the evolution of the seven-day week, which came into being with the Babylonian calendar, and the later, more modern, development of the two-day weekend. In …

Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville - Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-first Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway is a book by Witold Rybczynski.