Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture and urbanism for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Home and the award-winning Olmsted biography A Clearing in the Distance. His latest book is The Story of Architecture The recipient of the National Building Museum's 2007 Vincent Scully Prize and a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, he lives in Philadelphia, where he is emeritus professor of urbanisdm at the University of Pennsylvania.
Read his blog at http://www.witoldrybczynski.com.