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Halina Skibniewska (10 January 1921 – 20 April 2011) was a Polish architect, lecturer on Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, and served in the Polish sejm from 1965 to 1985. During her career, she was the first woman to serve as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm, a post which she held from 1971 to 1985, the first architect to ...
Examples of Polish constructivism and international style include numerous housing complexes and modern residential houses built by architects Barbara Brukalska and Stanisław Brukalski (own house at 8 Niegolewskiego Street in Warsaw, WSM housing estate in Żoliborz, Warsaw), Bohdan Lachert (own house at 9 Katowicka Street in Warsaw), Józef ...
Gothic architecture is represented in the majestic churches but also at the burgher houses and fortifications.The most significant buildings are St. John's Cathedral (14th century), the temple is a typical example of the so-called Masovian gothic style, St. Mary's Church (1411), a town house of Burbach family (14th century), [1] Gunpowder Tower (after 1379) and the Royal Castle Curia Maior ...
Jadwiga Dobrzyńska (1898 – 1 February 1940) was a Polish architect. Her work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. [1] She was one of the first female graduates of the Warsaw University of Technology's Faculty of Architecture in 1922. [2]
Alina Scholtz (24 September 1908 – 25 February 1996) was a Polish landscape architect, known as one of country's pioneers in developing the field. [1] Throughout her career she worked on various public and private projects for cemeteries, parks and green spaces.
Neoclassical architecture in Poland was centered on Warsaw under the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski, while the modern concept of a single capital city was to some extent inapplicable in the decentralized Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Wilanów Palace (Polish: Pałac w Wilanowie, Polish pronunciation: [ˈpawad͡z v vilaˈnɔvjɛ]) is a former royal palace located in the Wilanów district of Warsaw, Poland.It was built between 1677–1696 for king of Poland John III Sobieski according to a design by architect Augustyn Wincenty Locci.
Wilanów Palace in Warsaw, the 17th- and 18th-century summer residence of Polish kings Early Polish baroque buildings were often designed by foreign (most often, Italian) architects. The first baroque building in present-day Poland was the Saints Peter and Paul Church, Kraków by Giovanni Battista Trevano .