Richard Konwiarz belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Richard Konwiarz as German architect (1883–1960).
Richard Konwiarz was born at Kępno in 1883. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at TU Dresden.
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.
Among his best-known works are Olympic Stadium in Wrocław, WuWA Kindererholungsheim and CeTA. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Germany shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Richard Konwiarz died in 1960, aged 77. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Olympic Stadium in Wrocław
- Notable work: WuWA Kindererholungsheim
- Notable work: CeTA
- Trained at TU Dresden
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