![]() ![]() Like that earlier volume, The Most Beautiful House in the World is a consideration of the ways in which an inanimate dwelling takes on life and meaning when humans inhabit it also like its predecessor, Rybczynski's new book is deceptive in its brevity, for it is densely packed with information and analysis and requires the reader's most attentive consideration. ![]() The boat never got built - "My dream of constructing a boat had not hardened into an obsession, and I was in no rush to start what promised to be an arduous task" - but the shed did, in the process being transformed from a place in which to build a boat into one in which to live, and confirming its maker in the belief that "the most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself." How this came to pass, a story "full of accidents," is told by Rybczynski in this, his latest book his previous was Home: The Short History of an Idea, published in 1986. $18.95 SEVERAL YEARS ago Witold Rybczynski, an architect and writer who lives in Montreal, got the idea of building himself a boat and, before that, a shed in which to construct it. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOUSE IN THE WORLD By Witold Rybczynski Viking. ![]()
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