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Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski is emeritus professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit.

Palladio in the Rough

A South Carolinian builds classical revival houses that really look old

by Witold Rybczynski | Thursday, December 01, 2005

Rebuilding The Mack

Is the Glasgow School of Art truly irreplaceable?

by Witold Rybczynski | Monday, September 08, 2014

The Best Advice for Biographers

by Witold Rybczynski | Monday, October 28, 2013

Words Apart

A writer in Quebec finds that language creates an unbridgeable divide

by Witold Rybczynski | Monday, June 01, 2009

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”