Witold Rybczynski

Read an excerpt of THE DRIVING MACHINE on Literary Hub, lithub.com/the-peoples-ca…

ICAA has just posted a video of my lecture on Charleston LITTLE HOUSES AND BIG DREAMS IN THE HOLY CITY. classicist.org/articles/endur…

Aalto in the snow

A holiday gift for the budding architect on your list.

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.

200 years today. Happy birthday Mr Olmsted.🌿

A richly informative obit for Christopher Alexander in the New York Times, by Penelope Green. nytimes.com/2022/03/29/art…

We need to think about the worst-case scenario that could arise from Putin's invasion of Ukraine. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Does anyone think Ukraine wouldn’t be a valued member of NATO now?

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…

The Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Two neighbouring houses are projecting the blue and yellow onto its facade. The ambassador is reportedly “apoplectic”.

Preparing for Defeat americanpurpose.com/articles/prepa…

Happy Birthday Mr. Olmsted! hedgehogreview.com/issues/politic…

@cmpizzi @paulgoldberger This is a key piece of information that was missed by the rather poor reports of both the Wash Post and the NYT.

@paulgoldberger UC system is exempt from codes, BTW

It is hard to believe that there is any building code anywhere, let alone in California, that would allow it. And I didn’t think that the University of California was exempt from local building codes.

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/academics… and brightsheng.com/bio.html

The Shim-Sutcliffe door at the @corkingallery. It mystifies me that many architects don’t understand the importance of a front door handle

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

@stewartbrand Coolest ever in Bay Area? Really? Surely that's Maybeck.

The Bay Area’s coolest architect ever.

I like how there’s just one guy in the Rolling Stones that dresses like a regular 77 year-old man.