Bohdan Lachert is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Bohdan Lachert as Polish architect (1900–1987).
Bohdan Lachert was born at Moscow in 1900. His recorded nationality is Poland. He trained at Warsaw University of Technology.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
His best-known building is Soviet Military Cemetery. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: SARP Honorary Award, Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland, Gold Cross of Merit and Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
That the work was built in Poland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Bohdan Lachert died in 1987, aged 87. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Soviet Military Cemetery
- SARP Honorary Award
- Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland
- Gold Cross of Merit
- Trained at Warsaw University of Technology
