Witold Rybczynski writes about architecture, cities, and other things. Latest book: The Driving Machine (Norton).
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Read an excerpt of THE DRIVING MACHINE on Literary Hub, lithub.com/the-peoples-car-h…
ICAA has just posted a video of my lecture on Charleston LITTLE HOUSES AND BIG DREAMS IN THE HOLY CITY. classicist.org/articles/endu…
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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A richly informative obit for Christopher Alexander in the New York Times, by Penelope Green.
nytimes.com/2022/03/29/arts/…
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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I like how there’s just one guy in the Rolling Stones that dresses like a regular 77 year-old man.
Sad to hear of Thomas Gordon Smoth's passing. His was a highly original talent in the classical/traditional field.
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."
