Witold Rybczynski writes about architecture, cities, and other things. Latest book: The Driving Machine (Norton).
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15 Oct 2024
Read an excerpt of THE DRIVING MACHINE on Literary Hub, lithub.com/the-peoples-car-h…
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3 Apr 2024
ICAA has just posted a video of my lecture on Charleston LITTLE HOUSES AND BIG DREAMS IN THE HOLY CITY. classicist.org/articles/endu…
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17 Dec 2022
A holiday gift for the budding architect on your list.
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4 Jun 2022
Henry Bacon and Daniel Chester French's Lincoln Memorial turned 100 this week Read about in my "Story of Architecture," coming from Yale this October.
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29 Mar 2022
A richly informative obit for Christopher Alexander in the New York Times, by Penelope Green.
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3 Apr 2022
We need to think about the worst-case scenario that could arise from Putin's invasion of Ukraine. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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17 Mar 2022
Does anyone think Ukraine wouldn’t be a valued member of NATO now?
Ukrainian military plays the anthem on the violin in front of his colleagues
Even in the most difficult days, the morale of the #Ukrainian army cannot be broken💙💛
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13 Mar 2022
Must read. My brilliant, acerbic, and truly expert colleague Steve Kotkin. “A Scholar of Stalin Discusses Putin, Russia, Ukraine, and the West” | The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/s…
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11 Mar 2022
The Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Two neighbouring houses are projecting the blue and yellow onto its facade. The ambassador is reportedly “apoplectic”.
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8 Oct 2021
Canceled for screening Olivier's Othello. The truly grotesque thing is that Bright Sheng, the professor the woke red guards went after, experienced the original Cultural Revolution in China. michigandaily.com/news/acade… and brightsheng.com/bio.html
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9 Oct 2021
The Shim-Sutcliffe door at the @corkingallery. It mystifies me that many architects don’t understand the importance of a front door handle
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6 Oct 2021
I am pleased to join Alice Waters, Joyce Carol Oates, Julian Fellowes, and Irving Penn as a contributor to "Home: A Celebration" (Rizzoli), a fundraiser for @nokidhungry
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23 Jul 2021
I like how there’s just one guy in the Rolling Stones that dresses like a regular 77 year-old man.
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29 Jun 2021
Sad to hear of Thomas Gordon Smoth's passing. His was a highly original talent in the classical/traditional field.
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29 Jun 2021
The New Racism Won’t Solve the Old Racism nytimes.com/2021/06/28/opini… "All this would have been too obvious for words until just a few years ago."
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