National Gallery of Canada (1993) City Life: Urban expectations in a new world (1995) A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century (1999) One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw (2000) The Look of Architecture (2001) The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (2002) Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers (2006), co-written with Laurie Olin Last Harvest: How A Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America (2007) My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life (2009) Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities (2010) The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum (2011) How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit (2013) Mysteries of the Mall: And Other Essays (2015) Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History (2016) Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City (2019) See also Natalia Rybczynski References Notes External links Author page at Penguin Canada Faculty page at University of Pennsylvania Author page at Simon & Schuster 1943 births Living people Scottish people of Polish descent Canadian architects Canadian architecture writers Canadian people of Polish descent People from Surrey Scottish emigrants to Canada Urban theorists Writers from Montreal New Classical architects McGill School of Architecture alumni