In the history of building, Helena Syrkus is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Helena Syrkus as Polish architect (1900-1982).
Helena Syrkus was born at Warsaw in 1900. Her recorded nationality is Poland. She trained at University of Warsaw.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
She is recorded as architect, university teacher and urban planner.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
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.
Helena Syrkus died in 1982, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at University of Warsaw
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