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Upstairs, DownstairsHow small details make great architects.

By Witold RybczynskiPosted Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, at 7:50 AM ET

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic. His latest book is My Two Polish Grandfathers: And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life.
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