Bohdan Lachert

Bohdan Lachert (born June 13, 1900 in Moscow , † January 8, 1987 in Warsaw ) was a Polish architect , Warsaw university professor and an important representative of Polish modernism .

Life

After graduating from school in Moscow, Lachert studied architecture in Warsaw. He then became a member of the Praesens group and became friends with Józef Szanajca . In 1927 they took part in the competition for the seat of the League of Nations in Geneva ; At the International Exhibition of Art and Technology ( Exposition Internationale des arts et des techniques dans la vie modern Paris ) in 1935 they received an award (“Grand Prix”) for the Polish pavilion. During the occupation in World War II , Lachert founded the group "Piatka konspiracyjna" (German: Konspirative Fünf ) with the architects Barbara Brukalska, Stefan Tworkowski, Jerzy Gomóliński and Zasław Malicki . This group developed plans to rebuild Aleje Jerozolimskie . Lachert also taught at the Warsaw Faculty of Architecture, which was continued underground.

At the end of the war, Lachert was in Lublin. On January 28, 1945, the Lublin government sent him to Warsaw with Józef Sigalin and Lech Niemojewski to work in the Office for the Reconstruction of the Capital (BOS) . Since February he was head of the architecture and engineering department. From 1948 and 1952 he designed and built the Muranów settlement , which was built in place of the former Warsaw ghetto . During the work on the settlement, the doctrine of Socialist Realism was introduced, as a result of which Lachert was forced to revise his project. From 1948 Lachert held the chair for industrial design at the Warsaw Politechnika . 1950–1954 he was dean of the architecture faculty of Politechnika Warszawska. In 1984 he was awarded the honorary prize of the architects' association SARP ( Honorowa Nagroda SARP ).

Buildings (selection)

• Szyller Villa in Warsaw
• Apartment building in the Ulica Francuska 12 , Warsaw
• Sculpture by Józef Szanajca
• Post office on Targowa Street in Warsaw
• Corner building at Ulica Chmielna 2
• PKO Bank building in Warsaw
• Muranów cinema as part of the Muranów settlement
• Soviet military cemetery in Warsaw

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  Part of the Muranów settlement

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  Corner buildings on Chmielna and Nowy Świat streets

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  PKO bank building on Sienkiewicza Street

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  Soviet military cemetery

literature

• Niels Gutschow, Barbara Klain: Destruction and Utopia. City planning Warsaw 1939–1945. Junius-Verlag, ISBN 3-88506-223-2 , Hamburg 1994, p. 163

Web links

Commons : Bohdan Lachert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on the Lachert family of architects (in Polish)