In the history of building, Władysław Sadłowski is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Władysław Sadłowski as Polish architect (1869–1940).
Władysław Sadłowski was born at Lviv in 1869. His recorded nationality is Second Polish Republic. He trained at Lviv Polytechnic.
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.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: 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.
Władysław Sadłowski died in 1940, aged 71. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Trained at Lviv Polytechnic
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