Matthew Nowicki (in Poland known as Maciej Nowicki) (26 June 1910 – 1 September 1950) was a Polish architect. He was chief architect of the new Indian city of
Chandigarh
Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ...
.
Career
Nowicki was born in
Chita in
Siberia
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. After the
Second World War
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he received a commission to work on plans for the reconstruction of Poland's capital city,
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
. In December 1945 he was posted to
New York City
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as an official delegate of the Polish state, to advertise the rebuilding of Poland.
[Nick Hodg]
''Maciej Nowicki: A Passage to India''
, Kracow Post, 6 September 2010. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
Nowicki was the architect of the
J.S. Dorton Arena in
Raleigh
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built in 1952 after his death. He was a member of the 'Workshop of Peace' team working on the
United Nations Headquarters
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. He was a chair of the Faculty of Architecture at
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University (NC State, North Carolina State, NC State University, or NCSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1887 and p ...
.
His wife, Stanislawa Nowicki (Polish:Nowicka), was also an architect who taught from 1951 to 1977 at the
University of Pennsylvania
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.
Death
Nowicki died around midnight on 31 August/1 September 1950, in the crash of
Trans World Airlines Flight 903 near
Wadi Natrun in the
Western Desert of Egypt. He had been returning from India where he was chief architect designing the new city of Chandigarh.
References
Further reading
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External links
"Maciej Nowicki: A Tribute to a Neglected Genius"
Gasthouse "Hetman", designed by Maciej Nowicki, Stanisława Nowicka and W. Stokowski
of Congress''
Guide to the Matthew Nowicki Drawings and Other Material 1944-2011Nowicki 100th anniversary conferenceMaciej Nowicki; humanista, wizjoner i architekt, p. 70-74
1910 births
1950 deaths
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Egypt
20th-century Polish architects
North Carolina State University faculty
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1950
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