- Maciej Nowicki (architect)
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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.
External Links
- "Maciej Nowicki: A Passage to India"
- "Maciej Nowicki: A Tribute to a Neglected Genius"
- J.S. Dorton Arena
- Gasthouse "Hetman", designed by Maciej Nowicki, Stanisława Nowicka and W. Stokowski
- Library of Congress
- Web Poster Exhibition - Polish Art Deco posters in Lviv
- Nowicki 100th anniversary conference
- Maciej Nowicki; humanista, wizjoner i architekt, p. 70-74
Categories:- 1910 births
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- Polish architects
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Libya
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