Witold Rybczynski Quotes & Sayings

The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. — 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 appears disorderly and chaotic. In fact, there is organization, but it is a loose orchestration of many separate trademen, working side by side but not necessarily together. — Witold Rybczynski

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

There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book. — 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 express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey. — 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 room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure — Witold Rybczynski

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

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