Witold Rybczynski (born 1 March 1943) is a Canadian American architect, professor and writer.
[1] Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England, before moving at a young age to Canada.
Rybczynski has written around 300 articles and papers on the subjects of housing, architecture, and technology, many of which are aimed at a non-technical readership.
His work has been published in a wide variety of magazines, including The Wilson Quarterly, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker.
[5] Rybczynski's book Home: A Short History of an Idea was nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award for non-fiction, and A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize[6] and was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.