In the history of building, Zygmunt Gorgolewski is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Zygmunt Gorgolewski as Polish architect.
Zygmunt Gorgolewski was born at Solec in 1845. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Prussia.
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 restorer.
His best-known building is Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy).
That the work was built in Kingdom of Prussia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Zygmunt Gorgolewski died in 1903, aged 58. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet
- Order of the Iron Crown (Kingdom of Italy)
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