Juliusz Żórawski (2 October 1898 in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 159 ...

– 24 November 1967 in Kraków) was a Polish

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, theoretist of architecture,

interior designer Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordina ...

, professor of

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(since 1945). He was a designer of representative flat buildings in

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(e.g. Dom Wedla on Puławska street, 1935–1938; Feniks on Mickiewicz street, 1937–1939), public buildings (e.g. Atlantic cinema in Warsaw, 1930, with

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) and numerous

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s. He was an author of architecture composition works, which most notable is ''O budowie formy architektonicznej'' (1962).

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* * Architects from Kraków 1898 births 1967 deaths Academic staff of Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology {{Poland-architect-stub