Jan Zawiejski belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Jan Zawiejski as architect (1854–1922).
Jan Zawiejski was born at Kraków in 1854. His recorded nationality is Poland. He trained at TU Wien.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect and restorer.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
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.
Jan Zawiejski died in 1922, aged 68. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at TU Wien
