Architect Witold Rybczynski is known for his books exploring the most basic questions of the man-made environment. His latest book is called Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville. This is ...

Julie K. Rybczynski, who was coordinator of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore’s church leadership institute and whose battle against cancer inspired family and friends, died Saturday of ...

In 1893, at a banquet at Madison Square Garden in New York, a Chicago architect delivered an impromptu encomium to Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape designer responsible for the grounds of the ...

Rybczynski%E2%80%99s latest essay collection, a sharp culling of his previously published work, may seem at first glance like a World%E2%80%99s Shortest Books entry ...

I was raised in New York City, but it wasn’t until I moved to an earthquake-prone metropolis that I began thinking, daily, about buildings. Though I’ve been privy to some significant architectural ...

An architect by training, Witold Rybczynski is one of America’s most accessible and thoughtful critics of the built world. He writes with grace and common sense on subjects ranging from city life to ...

If you Google the term “a scholar and a gentleman,” the first result to pop up is a picture of Witold Rybczynski — or it would be if there were any justice in the world. Rybczynski is an architect, ...

At the end of another long Arctic summer day on Canada's Devon Island, Natalia Rybczynski's palaeontology field crew was disheartened, having once again found nothing new. Then, to make matters worse, ...

Overrun by exhibitionists, the memoir has turned spuriously confessional. Yet if there’s one life story that could stand a bit more self-revelation, it’s that of Witold Rybczynski. Is it possible to ...

Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Wednesday from 3 to 9 p.m. Mr. Rybczynski was a Veteran of WWII and participated in the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. In lieu of flowers, ...

Dr. Jacob Michael Rybczynski, DPM, age 74 of Maybee Michigan, passed away on Thursday, June 15th 2023. He is survived by his three sons, Stephen M. (Jessica), Richard A., and Matthew J. (Jessica) ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. Where do you live? In a high-rise apartment building in the middle of a bustling city? Or, on the outskirts of town, along a tree-lined ...