In the history of building, Stefan Narębski is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Stefan Narębski as Polish architect (1892-1966).
Stefan Narębski was born at Grozny in 1892. His recorded nationality is Poland. He trained at Saint Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers 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 architect, restorer and university teacher.
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.
Stefan Narębski died in 1966, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Saint Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers and Warsaw University of Technology
