Witold Rybczynski is a writer and an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author ofHow Architecture WorksandMysteries of the Malland has written about architecture and design forThe New Yorker,The Atlantic,The New York Times, andSlate. Among his award-winning books areHome,The Most Beautiful House in the World, andA Clearing in the Distance, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. He is the winner of the 2007 Vincent Scully Prize and the 2014 Design Mind Award from the National Design Awards. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia.