Professor Emeritus Witold Rybczynski was recently honored for his "Design Mind" at the Cooper Hewitt 2014 National Design Awards Gala. The National Design Awards program celebrates design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement.
Witold has written eighteen books and several hundred essays and reviews on architecture, urbanism, and design including contributions to the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times, and has been an architecture critic for Saturday Night, Wigwag, and Slate. The recipient of the 2007 Vincent Scully Prize, Rybczynski’s critically acclaimed books include the J. Anthony Lukas Prize-winning A Clearing in the Distance, Home: A Short History of an Idea, Last Harvest, Makeshift Metropolis, and How Architecture Works: A Humanist’s Toolkit, which was a finalist for the Marfield Prize for writing on the arts.
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