Rybczynski Takes Home A J. Scully

We got word today from the National Building Museum that they’ve just announced the winner of the Vincent J. Scully Prize. This time around, Slate magazine’s architectural critic, Witold Rybczynski. Although we’re not frequent readers of Slate, even though we sometimes intend to be, we’ve always enjoyed Rybczynski’s writing in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and we’re super happy that he’s being recognized. So happy we’ll even take the time to type his last name out one more time: Rybczynski (try it at home — it’s tricky, even if, like this writer, you’re dating a Polish girl and should be used to the miscellaneous hard consonants by now).