Edmund Roman Orlik practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Edmund Roman Orlik as Polish soldier and architect (1918-1982).
Edmund Roman Orlik was born at Rogoźno in 1918. His recorded nationality is Poland. He trained at Polish Army Armored Weapons Training Center and 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 soldier, architect and military personnel.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Cross of Valour.
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.
Edmund Roman Orlik died in 1982, aged 64. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Cross of Valour
- Trained at Polish Army Armored Weapons Training Center and Warsaw University of Technology
