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Witold Rybczynski
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Big Picture Science
Vroom!
Self-driving cars, once a thing of science fiction, have become a reality in a handful of cities across the country. As our vehicles gain autonomy, they may provoke a profound shift not unlike the introduction of the first car in the late1800s and raise the question of whether the human driver will soon be obsolete. For a glimpse into the future of self-driving cars, we take a spin through the history of the automobile, from the Model T to the driverless taxi-cab. Along the way, we explore the rise of American manufacturing and the unmistakable but unexpected way...
2025-04-07
55 min
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Episode 74: Taking a Sit: 5,000 Years of Taking a Load Off
You better take a knee because in this episode, The Two Humans discuss everything from squatting to bean bag chairs. Episode 74: Taking a Sit: 5,000 Years of Taking a Load Off An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011 Resources: B...
2025-03-21
1h 17
Off the Deaton Path
S8E14 Podcast: The Driving Machine: Why Our Cars Look The Way They Do
Stan’s guest this week is renowned architect Witold Rybczynski, who discusses his new book, The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car, published by W.W. Norton. In this wide-ranging discussion, the author reflects on why cars are reflections of our national character, from the Model T to the Range Rover, and how automotive legends like Carl Benz, Ferdinand Porsche, and Harley Earl, created the cars we love and hate, from the VW Beetle to the Mustang and the Corvette, from the SUV to the Tesla Cybertruck. https://www.deatonpath.georgiahistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2-13-25.mp...
2025-02-13
00 min
The Virtual Memories Show
Episode 624 - Witold Rybczynski
With his latest book, THE DRIVING MACHINE: A Design History of the Car (Norton), architect and architecture & design writer Witold Rybczynski explores how cars evolved from their earliest days through the befuddling styles of today's EVs. We get into the design language of cars and how it had no true precedent, why European styles were so different and varied than America's, his favorite era for car design, and the differences between writing about cars and writing about buildings. We talk about the cars in his life and how he integrated them into The Driving Machine's narrative (including the Mercedes...
2025-02-05
1h 42
Bessie Estrada
Read [Pdf]> Home: A Short History of an Idea By Witold Rybczynski (Author) Full Episode
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2024-10-18
00 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Computers & Technology
The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car by Witold Rybczynski
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/803896 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car Author: Witold Rybczynski Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as 'one of the best writers on design working today' by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them. Delving into more than 170 years of ingenuity in design, technology, and engineering, he takes us from Carl Benz...
2024-10-08
30 min
Something You Should Know
How to Sync with Your Circadian Rhythms & A Fascinating History of Cars
“You should drink at least 8 glasses of water per day!” Well, wait a second. That advice is about 80 years old and frankly doesn’t really “hold water.” This episode begins by explaining how much water you really should drink and how some people might actually be drinking too much. https://www.tuftsmedicine.org/about-us/news/medical-myths-drink-8-glasses-water-each-dayEvery cell in your body apparently has a little clock built into it. These clocks know when you should sleep, when you should get up, when you do your best work and more. The whole system is called you circadian rhythms an...
2024-10-03
47 min
The Colin McEnroe Show
Take a seat and listen to our hour on chairs
What can we learn about ourselves from what we sit on? This hour, the history of chairs, their impact on our lifestyle and health, and what’s in store for their future. Plus, we celebrate the joy of a well-designed chair, talk with a chair maker, and discuss some of our favorite examples. GUESTS: Galen Cranz: Professor emerita of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, a founding member of the Association for Body Conscious Design, and the author of The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design, among other books Aspen Gol...
2024-05-29
50 min
The Colin McEnroe Show
Take a seat and listen to our hour on chairs
What can we learn about ourselves from what we sit on? This hour, the history of chairs, their impact on our lifestyle and health, and what’s in store for their future. Plus, we celebrate the joy of a well-designed chair, talk with a chair maker, and discuss some of our favorite examples. GUESTS: Galen Cranz: Professor emerita of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley and a founding member of the Association for Body Conscious Design; she is the author of The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design, among other boo...
2023-10-18
49 min
Yale University Press Podcast
Witold Rybczynski and Hugh Pearman on Architecture
The two distinguished historians and critics of architecture compare the approaches they take in their new books.
2023-06-20
50 min
YaleUniversity
Witold Rybczynski and Hugh Pearman on Architecture
The two distinguished historians and critics of architecture compare the approaches they take in their new books.
2023-06-20
50 min
Yale University Press Podcast
Witold Rybczynski Tells the Story of Architecture
The eminent writer and architect’s new book follows the thread of architecture from the Stone Age to today.
2022-11-30
53 min
YaleUniversity
Witold Rybczynski Tells the Story of Architecture
The eminent writer and architect's new book follows the thread of architecture from the Stone Age to today.
2022-11-30
53 min
Unpaused the Podcast
S6, Ep 40 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Spectacular Unpause (you may not know about)
What happens when one of the most famous women in the world goes back to work? She proves she has something to give by giving her all and leaving a legacy that no one can argue with. Jackie’s last 20 years were a study in how fulfilling a working life can be. She didn’t need to do it, she didn’t have to do it; she wanted to do it. And with two marriages behind her and two children at school, no one was going to hold her back. At 45, she reclaimed her career and got down to work.
2022-08-11
20 min
Longform
Episode 492: Alexandra Lange
Alexandra Lange is a design critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her new book is Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.“I really like to write about things that I can hold and experience. I'm not that interested in biography, but I am very interested in the biography of an object. ... Like I feel about the objects, I think, how most people feel about people. So what I'm always trying to do is communicate that enthusiasm and that understanding to my reade...
2022-06-22
40 min
The Episodic w/ Michael Finney
2021 Reading List
Little shorter than I would have hoped but a satisfying list all the same. You can read this: https://mdf-365.medium.com/2021-reading-list-ac7396c5cc51 Or watch this: https://youtu.be/7fvW9jMoWxA Thanks - Enjoy! Includes notes & comments for: The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk Einstein | Walter Isaacson Think Again |Adam Grant Ulysses | James Joyce Hooked | Michael Moss The Magus | John Fowles Orthodoxy | GK Chesterton Journey to the...
2022-01-01
09 min
Urbcast - a podcast about cities (podcast o miastach)
76: Czemu warto projektować naszą przestrzeń dla nudy? (gościni: Aleksandra Gordowy)
Witaj w 76. odcinku Urbcastu będącym GRANDE FINALE drugiego sezonu - ostatnim odcinkiem w tym roku, w którym porozmawiałem o projektowaniu dla nudy razem z Aleksandrą Gordowy. Dlaczego warto o tym rozmawiać? Bo w coraz bardziej zabieganym i przebodźcowanym świecie nie mamy nawet chwili dla siebie. Zabieramy swoją pracę, laptopa czy telefon do łóżka lub toalety. Dlaczego warto w tym wszystkim na chwilę nicnierobić i się po prostu ponudzić? Dlaczego warto posłuchać? Ponieważ dużo częściej projektujemy przeciwko nudzie i staramy się ją zabić, zamiast się jej oddać i czerpać kor...
2021-12-21
46 min
The Englewood Review of Books Podcast
Episode 33: John Wilson & Tamara Murphy
Joel takes over the podcast for an episode focused on writing book reviews! He is joined by repeat podcast guest John Wilson and first-time guest Tamara Hill Murphy for a discussion of the form of the book review, the tensions involved in writing reviews, and of course what they are currently reading.John Wilson was the founding editor of Books & Culture (1995–2016). He is Contributing Editor for the Englewood Review of Books. He frequently writes a column every other week for First Things, and his reviews and essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Ne...
2021-10-18
49 min
Northstar Unplugged
#049. Brigid Schulte: author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time
Brigid Schulte is a journalist, public speaker, and program director of the Better Life Lab, the work-family justice and gender equity program at the nonpartisan think tank New America. She’s also the author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, gender and modern life, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time, which was named one of the notable books of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, and won the Virginia Library Association’s literary nonfiction award.Resources:Brigid’s website, and Facebook page. Follow her on Twitt...
2021-05-03
1h 03
The Virtual Memories Show
Episode 416 - Wendung
"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves," said George Orwell, but he died at 47, so what does he know? To celebrate turning 50, I use an obscure Woody Allen movie to talk about why I can't take stock of my life. Then the good part: I ask nearly 40 guests of the podcast one question, "What do you wish you'd done before the pandemic?" (You can skip right to that at 18:45.) Participants include Witold Rybczynski, Kathe Koja, John Holl, Emily Flake, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Ian Kelley, David Townsend, John Bertagnolli, Jennifer Hayden, Richard Kadrey, Joan Marans Dim, Liniers, Sven Birkerts, Barbara Nessim, Da...
2021-01-11
1h 38
The Seasoned Migrant Podcast
Urbanism: Mapping the Soul of our Cities
This week, we're exploring the built environments around us by investigating the tensions between city-planning and the organic, unplanned life of their inhabitants.With us on this episode is Witold Rybczynski, Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.For more exciting content and ideas, please subscribe to our podcast, follow us on Instagram (@seasoned.migrant) and check out our website, www.seasonedmigrant.com. New episodes out every Wednesday!
2020-12-02
33 min
Smarty Pants
#156: Sitting Down With Witold Rybczynski
A few years ago, Witold Rybczynski, one of The American Scholar's frequent contributors, happened to be coming to town for—of all things—a chair symposium. Not really having considered the chair as more than a functional object, we arranged to meet up at the Smithsonian American Art Museum to track down some classics of global chairmaking. And, of course, to sit in them.Go beyond the episode:Witold Rybczynski’s Now I Sit Me DownOn his blog, Rybczynski reviews quite a lot of chairsWatch a video on the making of Arne Jacobsen’s Series 7 chair fr...
2020-11-27
13 min
Overcrest: A Pretty Good Podcast
This is One Screwed Up Episode
Screws are something all of us take for granted, but is it really as simple as the rest of the hardware we use every single day? Witold Rybczynski, the author of "One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw" joins the podcast to talk about it. The guys also talk about the rally, their projects, and more... Check out Witold's website here: https://www.witoldrybczynski.com/books/ Support the show! www.patreon.com/overcrest
2020-09-07
56 min
The Virtual Memories Show
COVID Check-In with Witold Rybczynski
Architecture writer Witold Rybczynski checks in from Philadelphia. We talk about how his present circumstances — retired from teaching, helping his wife recover from a broken arm, and editing his next book — have enabled him to transition into shelter-in-place mode pretty smoothly. We also get into that upcoming book, The Story of Architecture, how working on it enables him to transport himself into the Renaissance and elsewhere/when, how it's modeled after Gombrich's The Story of Art, why he doesn't want to theorize about the impact of the pandemic on architecture, the Mantel & Greene books he's immersed in and the Fren...
2020-05-16
37 min
The Virtual Memories Show
The Guest List 2019
It's time for our annual Guest List episode! More than two dozen of the year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2019 and the books they hope to get to in 2020! Guests include Christopher Brown, Nina Bunjevac, Jerome Charyn, Caleb Crain, Joan Marans Dim, Boris Fishman, Katelan Foisy, Mort Gerberg, Eva Hagberg, Peter Kuper, Kate Lacour, Liniers, Kate Maruyama, Edie Nadelhaft, Sylvia Nickerson, James Oseland, Dawn Raffel, Witold Rybczynski, Frank Santoro, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Karl Stevens, James Sturm, Frederic Tuten, and Chris Ware! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patr...
2019-12-31
42 min
梁文道·八分
126. 野餐?看展?正经休息?按照"传统"过个双十一?
收听提示 1、双十一不够传统就不值得庆祝? 2、被我们逐渐遗忘的古老得节日形态是什么样的? 3、礼拜六、礼拜天的源头是什么? 4、现代的消费文化,是怎样的影响了我们过节的习俗? 本集推荐 《论休闲》是加拿大建筑师,教授兼作家,威托斯·黎辛斯基(Witold Rybczynski)于1991年出版的一本书。 在《论休闲》中,黎辛斯基讲述了以7天为一周的发展过程,这与巴比伦日历以及后来的更为现代的两天周末的形成有关。 通过这些,他讲述了休闲和休息的历史。首先从“禁忌日”,市场日,公共节日和圣日开始,以及随着工业革命的来临,“keeping Saint Monday”的习俗,也就是从星期一不工作,如何演变成现代的周末。 往期补充 张晓东 著 张晓东(Sheldon Zhang),麻省大学洛威尔分校(University of Massachusetts Lowell )犯罪与司法研究学院的现任主席兼教授。他在南加州大学获得社会学博士学位,之前曾在圣地亚哥州立大学担任社会学系主任。张晓东教授在犯罪学和司法研究领域有超过二十年的经验,并因对偷渡和贩毒的研究而享誉国际。 全新《八分》每周三、周五更新 欢迎留言与我们互动
2019-11-06
27 min
The Virtual Memories Show
Witold Rybczynski returns!
The great architecture writer Witold Rybczynski rejoins the show to talk about his wonderful new book, Charleston Fancy (Yale University Press). We get into how he discovered the stories and characters behind the Byzantine homes of a block of Charleston, the city's unique history and its role as a pioneer in historical zoning, the catastrophe that launched the book, and the value of local architects. We also talk about how computers have changed architecture and building, how an architecture student can graduate nowadays without actually making a set of architectural drawings, the loss of tradition and continuity in architecture...
2019-10-03
1h 31
Revealing Voices
Episode 27 – Restoration and Advocacy with Deborah Geesling
Deborah Geesling, founder of P82 Project Restoration, has a heart for those with serious mental illness. Her family experience has given insight into the serious gaps in the mental health system. As her advocacy developed, she readily identified housing as being one of the top barriers to obtaining a life with dignity. P82 Project Restoration is an organization created to fulfill the dream of opening a Christ centered home for people who suffer with chronic mental illness. Her advocacy work has led her to speak at conferences, testify on government panels, and be mentioned in a number of publications. Tony...
2019-08-04
55 min
Yale University Press Podcast
Ep. 75 – Charleston Fancy
In this conversation with eminent architectural critic Witold Rybczynski, we discuss some fascinating and truly unique architecture and urban development projects in one the most beautiful cities in the U.S., Charleston, South Carolina. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Soundcloud
2019-05-30
33 min
Time to Read: a podcast book club
Episode 010: The Devil in the White City
Thank you for joining us this month for our discussion of The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.In this episode we mentionedErik Larson’s websiteRipper Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper–Case Closed by Patricia CornwellThe Monty Python’s The Struggling Architect sketchSophia Hayden, architectH. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam SelzerThe Titanic IIMerriam-Webster on TwitterHow Instagram Saved Poetry by Faith Hill & Karen Yuan (from The Atlantic) – Rupi Kaur author of Milk and...
2018-11-02
53 min
Coraz Lepsze NGO | Szczepan Kasiński
[CLNGO 04] Zostaw puste taczki! Jak pracować mniej, ale lepiej?
Dzień roboczy kończy się blisko północy, masz wrażenie uczciwie przepracowanego czasu... Ale czy to codzienne zabieganie przybliżyło Cię do realizacji Twoich działań? Działania społeczne, zaangażowanie w zmienianie świata, przepracowanie może Cię wykończyć szybciej niż się spodziewasz. Jak pracować mniej, ale mądrzej i z większym sensem rozmawiam z Martą Bernat, pasjonatką zarządzania czasem i dyrektor zarządzającą Fundacji inCanto. Notatki: Fundacja inCanto https://fundacjaincanto.pl/Witold Rybczyński, Dom. Krótka historia idei. https://www.karakter.pl/ksiazki/dom-krotka-historia-ideiPani Swojego Czasu http://www.paniswojegoc...
2018-01-16
1h 10
How Success Happens
This Architect Shares What You Gain When You Think Like an Outsider
Witold Rybczynski an architect, professor and writer whose books often study the everyday things we sometimes take for granted, from the humble screwdriver to the ubiquitous plastic patio chair. He’ll talk to us about what we learn when we take time to study the things we might otherwise overlook -- and how an outsider’s perspective can give anyone an advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2017-11-08
26 min
How Success Happens
This Architect Shares What You Gain When You Think Like an Outsider
Witold Rybczynski an architect, professor and writer whose books often study the everyday things we sometimes take for granted, from the humble screwdriver to the ubiquitous plastic patio chair. He’ll talk to us about what we learn when we take time to study the things we might otherwise overlook -- and how an outsider’s perspective can give anyone an advantage.
2017-11-08
24 min
Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)
Have a Seat: The History of Chairs
This week's Please Explain has us on the edge of our seats! From the Klismos, to the Eames, we're talking about the history of chairs and chair design with Witold Rybczynski, an architect, writer and an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s the author of, Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History. Have questions about chairs or chair design? Send us your questions in a comment below, or let us know on Twitter or Facebook!
2016-11-18
31 min
Smarty Pants
#8: High Art and Low Chairs
Take a crash course in Indie Publishing 101 with the founders of Restless Books; hear Scholar senior editor Bruce Falconer explain how John le Carré burned the bridge between genre and literary fiction; and learn from Witold Rybczynski how an iconic modern chair was inspired by an ant.Mentioned in this episode:• Bruce Falconer’s review of The Pigeon Tunnel• Our list of 13 “Spooktacular” Books and Michael Dirda’s attempt to out-scare us with a list of his own• An excerpt from How to Travel Without Seeing by Andrés Neuman, published by Restless Books, which offers a glimpse inside the surreal operatio...
2016-10-21
40 min
The Virtual Memories Show
Episode 148 - The Guest List 2015
More than 30 of the year's Virtual Memories Show guests tell us about the favorite books they read in 2015 and the books they hope to get to in 2016! Guests include Derf Backderf, Anthea Bell, John Clute, Michael Dirda, Matt Farber, Jonathan Galassi, Brad Gooch, Langdon Hammer, Liz Hand, Jennifer Hayden, Ron Hogan, Dylan Horrocks, David Jaher, Kathe Koja, Jonathan Kranz, Peter Kuper, Lorenzo Mattotti, JD McClatchy, Scott McCloud, Michael Meyer, Dan Perkins (a.k.a Tom Tomorrow), Summer Pierre, Witold Rybczynski, Dmitry Samarov, Elizabeth Samet, Liesl Schillinger, Posy Simmonds, Levi Stahl, Rupert Thomson, Irvine Welsh, Warren Woodfin, Jim Woodring, Claudia Y...
2015-12-29
1h 03
The Virtual Memories Show
Episode 110 - Thru' These Architects' Eyes
Witold Rybczynski discusses his newest book, How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit, and talks about that humanist approach to buildings, the problems with Brutalist architecture, the importance of having a canon of great buildings, the ways that digital technology are changing the practice of architecture, why there's no such thing as a 'theory of architecture', the reasons Philadelphia has such marvelous buildings, what it means to 'review' a building, why the 'Starchitect' phenomenon doesn't make for better buildings, and whether it's possible to improve the appearance of malls
2015-03-17
1h 22
Get Full Audiobook in History, World
Home by Witold Rybczynski | Free Audiobook
Listen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Home Author: Witold Rybczynski Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins Language: English Release date: 09-12-12 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genres: History, World Summary: In this illuminating book, Witold Rybczynski walks us through five centuries of homes both great and small, from the smoke-filled manor halls of the Middle Ages to the Ralph Laurendesigned environments of today, on a house tour like no other: one that delightfully explicates the very idea of home. Youll see how social and cultural changes influenced styles of decoration and furnishing...
2012-09-12
7h 34
Enjoy The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Captivating!
The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/120to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Beautiful House in the World Author: Witold Rybczynski Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins Release date: 08-31-12 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 27 ratings Genres: Architecture Publisher's Summary:
2012-08-31
5h 24
Free Audiobook: Where Stories Find Their Voice
Most Beautiful House in the World Audiobook by Witold Rybczynski
Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 210258 Title: Most Beautiful House in the World Author: Witold Rybczynski Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Length: 05:24:07 Language: English Release date: 08-06-12 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Genres: Non-Fiction, Home & Garden, Architecture & Design Summary: Witold Rybczynski takes us on an extraordinary odyssey as he tells the story of designing and building his own house. His project began as a workshed, but through a series of “happy accidents,” the structure gradually evolved into a full-fledged house. In tracing this evolution, he touches on matters both theoretical and practical, writing on such dive...
2012-08-06
5h 24
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social Science
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Weekend Author: Witold Rybczynski Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 15, 2011 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: “We work,” Aristotle wrote, “in order to have leisure.” Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of—the freedom to do nothing—the same as the leisure we look forward to each weekend? There have always been breaks from the routine of work—taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days—we couldn’t survive without them. In Waiting for the Weekend, W...
2011-11-15
03 min
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social Science
Waiting for the Weekend by Witold Rybczynski
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625800to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for the Weekend Author: Witold Rybczynski Narrator: Wanda Mccaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 15, 2011 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: “We work,” Aristotle wrote, “in order to have leisure.” Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of—the freedom to do nothing—the same as the leisure we look forward to each weekend? There have always been breaks from the routine of work—taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days—we couldn’t survive without them. In Waiting for the Weekend, Witol...
2011-11-15
5h 26
McGill Podcasts » Arts & Humanities
The Walrus McGill Debate at the Segal Centre
Join us for a lively and timely debate featuring Simon Brault, author of No Culture, No Future, vice-chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, and CEO of the National Theatre School, and president of Culture Montréal; McGill alum Witold Rybczynski, BArch’66, MArch’72, DSc’02, author of Makeshift Metropolis, University of Pennsylvania professor, and Slate architecture critic; and La Presse columnist and Radio-Canada broadcaster, Nathalie Petrowski, debating and dissecting city building and the future of culture in Montreal, above and beyond the Quartier des Spectacles partnership.
2011-07-28
00 min