Maciej Nowicki (architect)

Maciej Nowicki (architect)
Dorton Arena in Raleigh designed by Nowicki

Matthew Nowicki (in Poland known as Maciej Nowicki) (born June 26, 1910 in Chita in Siberia, died 1 September 1950 in the Libyan Desert near Wadi Natrun in Egypt) was a Polish architect.

Nowicki was the architect of the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh built in 1952 after his death. He was a member of the team working on the United Nations Headquarters. He was a chair of the Faculty of Architecture at North Carolina State University.

Nowicki died in the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 903 going back from India, where he had been designing the new city Chandigarh.

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