Józef Pius Dziekoński belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Józef Pius Dziekoński as Polish architect (1844–1927).
Józef Pius Dziekoński was born at Płock in 1844. His recorded nationality is Second Polish Republic. He trained at School of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
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 university teacher.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
Recognition followed: Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
That the work was built in Second Polish Republic shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Józef Pius Dziekoński died in 1927, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Trained at School of Fine Arts in Warsaw
