Awards and Recognition
His book Home: A Short History of an Idea was nominated for the 1986 Governor General's Award for non-fiction.
His book A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.
In 2007 he was the recipient of the Seaside Prize and the Vincent Scully Prize, awarded by the National Building Museum. Rybczynski is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.
He is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He has received the AIA Collaborative Honors, and the Pennsylvania AIA President's Award.
He holds honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Western Ontario.
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