Renderings of rooftop urban garden by SHop Architects for the Essex Crossing development on the Lower East Side.

Architecture for Amateurs

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 8, 2013

Witold Rybczynski, emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of many books, including his latest How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit (Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2013), offers a beginner's guide to architecture, including a "walk-through" of submissions to the competition for the National Museum of African-American history.

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