Meet the Author: Witold Rybczynski 


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As part of the library’s ongoing art and architecture lecture series, join New York Times bestselling author Witold Rybczynski for an illuminating and rare conversation on his life’s passion, architecture, and design. He is widely considered the most respected and popular architectural writer of the last 50 years, and this is not a talk to miss. Aside from promoting his most recent book, The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car, Rybczynski will dive into his lengthy career in the world of design and architectural criticism. 

Rybczynski currently serves as the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor Emeritus of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he concentrates on design and development, as well as architectural theory. He is the author of many bestselling texts, including Home (1986), translated into 10 languages; The Most Beautiful House in the World (1989); City Life (1995); A Clearing in the Distance (1999), a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted and winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize; The Look of Architecture (2000); and The Perfect House, on the Palladian villas of Northern Italy. 

Rybczynski frequently contributes to both The New York Review of Books and The New York Times

Sponsored by J.P. Franzen Associates Architects and Robert Dean Architects LLC

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Date:
March 27
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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