ABSTRACT:BOOKS review of the diary of Witold Gombrowicz.

NEWYORKER: Imp of the Perverse

In his book, Home: A Short History of an Idea, Witold Rybczynski describes this early form of home automation in a way that sounds like the 19th Century equivalent of a venture backed start-up.

FORBES: Technology's Domestic Origins. Plus: 4 Great Kitchen Gadgets Without Touchscreens

For such an apparently dull subject, Witold Rybczynski's brief history is a charming work that gracefully threads its way back to the origins of precision manufacturing and, in the process, the origins of the modern world.

ECONOMIST: Non-fiction

"Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, " by architect Witold Rybczynski and landscape architect Laurie Olin, is one of a number of popular and scholarly histories that in the past two decades have sought to redress this ideological imbalance.

WSJ: An American Renaissance Gem