Home by Witold Rybczynski5/28/2023 ![]() WR: The book started when Katherine Boller, my editor at Yale, asked me if I’d read Ernst Gombrich’s A Little History of the World. MCP: I have the book and it’s very nicely done. ![]() That is not to slight regions that often have their own unique architectural accomplishments … but I have chosen examples that best convey the principal thrust of the strain of architectural thought that has most influenced me.” Recently I talked with Rybczynski about the genesis for the book, what architecture lost when it abandoned ornamentation, and where we are today. “This is primarily although not exclusively the story of the Western canon. ![]() “I have not given equal attention to all parts of the world,” he writes in the book’s Note to the Reader. It’s done, he concedes, through his own prism. ![]() The author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance starts with the ancients, works his way chronologically through the movements, buildings, and architects, and into the present day. Witold Rybczynski’s latest book-he’s written 22 now, at last count-is The Story of Architecture (Yale University Press), and it’s as comprehensive as the title implies. This article was originally published on Common Edge. ![]()
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