House World Quotes by Witold Rybczynski

While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also…

— Witold Rybczynski

Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no…

— Witold Rybczynski

“There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.”

— Witold Rybczynski

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

— Witold Rybczynski

For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?

— Witold Rybczynski

The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.

— Witold Rybczynski

There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.

— Witold Rybczynski

You could walk out of the house, but you always returned home.

— Witold Rybczynski

“I enjoy visiting building sites. Unlike the ordered anonymity of office bureaucracy or the featureless regularity of a factory assembly line, a building site…

— Witold Rybczynski