Remembering Places: The Autobiography of Joseph Rykwert Rykwert Joseph
Remembering Places: The Autobiography of Joseph Rykwert Rykwert Joseph Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. In this autobiography he…
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Remembering Places: The Autobiography of Joseph Rykwert Rykwert Joseph
Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. In this autobiography he tells for the first time of how his life's experiences shaped his working life. One of very few writers to be awarded the RIBA's highest honour, the Royal Gold Medal in 2014, and author of countless books and essays, his influence over the past 60 years cannot be underestimated.
He spent most of his working life between the USA and UK and worked both as a designer and a writer; as such his ground-breaking ideas and work have had a major impact on the thinking of architects and designers since the 1960s and continue to do so to this He addresses the dualities between which he had to navigate: Jewish/Polish, Polish/British and later, Practice/Scholarship.