Waiting for the Weekend

witold rybczynski

Exploring the time we think of as our own, the author discusses the evolution of leisure time in Western civilization, from Aristotle, through the Middle Ages, to the present. By the author of Home. Reprint.

Genres nonfictionhistorymicrohistorysociologyarchitectureculturalaudiobookpsychologysocial sciencecanada

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 19,1991

This edition

Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Published: July 1, 1992 by Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140126631
ASIN: 0140126635
Language: English

About the author

witold rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh, of Polish parentage, raised in London, and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal, where he also taught for twenty years. He is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also co-edits the Wharton Real Estate Review. Rybczynski has designed and built houses as a registered architect, as well as doing practical experiments in low-cost housing, which took him to Mexico, Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and China.

(From www.witoldrybczynski.com)