Witold Rybczynski is a celebrated architect, historian, critic and Slate.com columnist known for his award-winning books such as Home, A Clearing in the Distance, and Last Harvest. In his latest book, My Two Polish Grandfathers And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life, which is part memoir, part family history, Rybczynski blends a personal story with musings about the universal languages of art, architecture and music, and the development of his own artistic eye and understanding of the world.
It was 1967. I was twenty-four, a freshly-minted architecture graduate spending a year abroad. After driving through France and Spain, and an idyllic several months on the island of Formentera, I was back in Paris, staying with my uncle and aunt, before returning to Canada. But first, I wanted to visit Poland… Architecture critic Witold Rybczynski reminisces.
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