In the history of building, Władysław Marconi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Władysław Marconi as Polish architect (1848–1915).
Władysław Marconi was born at Warsaw in 1848. His recorded nationality is Poland. He trained at Imperial Academy of Arts.
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 historic preservationist.
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.
Władysław Marconi died in 1915, aged 67. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Imperial Academy of Arts
