Wednesday, October 9 at 6:00 PM
Join us to celebrate the latest work by Witold Rybczynski whom Publishers Weekly has hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today." Rybczynski will discuss our most distinctive cars and the people who created them. Charting an evolution in form and function, he will take us from Carl Benz’s three-wheel motorcar in 1855, to the Golden Age of American car design and the rise of car culture, to the present-day shift to electric cars. Along the way, he will explain key developments in automobile technology, the arrival of postwar European subcompacts typified by the Fiat Cinquecento and the Mini, and the long evolution of the woodie, from the US Army jeep to the SUV. If we're lucky, he may also charm us with accounts of cars he has owned and driven, starting with his first -- the iconic Volkswagen Beetle!
Book signing will follow. Book sales arranged through Head House Books.
Witold Rybczynski is an architect and emeritus professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of twenty-one books, including the best-selling Home, City Life, and The Story of Architecture. The Driving Machine, published in the fall of 2024, is his latest work. He lives in Philadelphia.
