Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture for "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic", "The New York Times", and "Slate". Among his award-winning books are "Home", "The Most Beautiful House in the World", and "A Clearing in the Distance", which won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is the emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. "How Architecture Works" is his eighteenth book.