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Witold Rybczynski's Books
There are 7 books
1.
Makeshift Metropolis
Ideas About Cities
By: Witold Rybczynski
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: September 2, 2011
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 as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and...
Other Formats: eBook
2.
My Two Polish Grandfathers
And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life
By: Witold Rybczynski
This edition: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publication date: February 3, 2009
AWARD-WINNING AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI DELIVERS A REVELATORY COLLECTION OF LINKED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS -- PART MEMOIR, PART FAMILY HISTORY -- ABOUT THE UPHEAVALS OF EUROPEAN LIVES DURING WORLD WAR...
Other Formats: eBook
3.
Last Harvest
From Cornfield to New Town
By: Witold Rybczynski
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: May 13, 2008
When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked...
Other Formats: eBook
4.
The Perfect House
A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
By: Witold Rybczynski
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: August 26, 2003
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art...
5.
One Good Turn
A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
By: Witold Rybczynski
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: September 11, 2001
The Best Tool of the Millennium The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying "the best tool of the millennium." An...
6.
A Clearing in the Distance
Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
By: Witold Rybczynski
This edition: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publication date: June 8, 1999
In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
7.
City Life
Urban Expectations In A New World
By: Witold Rybczynski
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: October 10, 1996
