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Palladio in the rough: a South Carolinian builds classical revival houses that really look old.(Historic Renovations of Charleston)
The suburbs of Charleston, South Carolina, resemble those of any other modern metropolitan area: strip malls line highways, and drive-through...
American Scholar, 01/01/06 by Rybczynski, Witold · More from publication -
The Bilbao Effect
In 1955 Le Corbusier built the chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp, a remote site in the Jura Mountains near the Swiss border. The building...
Atlantic, The, 09/01/02 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication -
A Brand-New Olmsted
Judging from its late-nineteenth-century downtown buildings, Scranton was once a rich little city. The coal barons who made their fortunes mining...
Atlantic, The, 04/01/01 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication -
How to save our shrinking cities
Statistics show that large cities are shrinking in size at a rapid pace in the postwar period. Between 1980 and 1990, for instance, the total...
Public Interest, 03/22/99 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication -
Facades
Remember Parkinson's Law? It was formulated in 1958 by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, an obscure British political scientist who was then teaching at...
Whole Earth, 06/22/98 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication -
Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape. - book review
The thesis of Grady Clay's Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to Americas Generic Landscape[dagger] is precisely that if we are to make sense of...
Public Interest, 01/01/96 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication -
Landscape and Memory
Simon Schama writes big books. I don't mean that they have many pages, although they do, but that they explore big ideas. In Citizens, Schama dealt...
Insight on the News, 05/15/95 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication -
Preservation. - book reviews
Peter Svenson is a product of the 1960s: part activist and part perennial graduate student, blithely combining idealism and self-indulgence in the...
Insight on the News, 08/01/94 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication -
Bauhaus blunders: architecture and public housing - 1950s public housing estates Cabrini-Green, Chicago, Illinois, US
An international architectural competition, sponsored by the Chicago Tribune was launched in 1993 to redesign the inner-city 50s public housing...
Public Interest, 09/22/93 by Witold Rybczynski · More from publication
