Witold Rybczynski

The other day I was delighted to discover an Australian journal article about a country house that Romaldo Giurgola designed for himself in 2004, when he was eighty-five.

Years ago I had an unexpected satori.

An article in The Architects Newspaper titled “How Trump’s arch gets classical wrong” gets it wrong.

A design for the Trump Presidential Library has been unveiled: a highrise tower in downtown Miami.

I’ve recently come across several articles on the demise of the starchitect.

In his 1977 classic, Morality and Architecture, the late historian David Watkin, while discussing the early roots of European modernism, wrote: “Here is a belief that design, which is surely of its very nature contrived, ought somehow to be ‘honest’ and u…

It is not unreasonable to conclude that something went terribly wrong with the architecture of federal buildings in the (modernist) postwar era, producing clunkers such as the FBI Building, the HUD Building, and the Forrestal Building in Washington DC, and

Demetri Porphyrios invited me to contribute the foreword to King’s Cross: The Making of a Master Plan which describes a 67-acre urban development of disused railway lands in central London.

With apologies to Jack Kerouac.

The State Dining Room in the White House seats 140.