Tadeusz Tołwiński

Tadeusz Tołwiński (born January 18, 1887 in Odessa , † January 13, 1951 in Warsaw ) was a Polish architect, urban planner and university professor.

Life

Tołwiński's father was the architect Mikołaj Tołwiński (1857–1924). He himself studied architecture from 1905 to 1911 at the University of Karlsruhe , where he specialized in urban planning. Subsequently, he traveled to Italy, France, Russia, Germany and the United States of America for study purposes. In 1912 he built a garden city in Ząbki near Warsaw . Further designs for garden city systems in the greater Warsaw area ( Podkowa Leśna , Młociny , Żoliborz , Sadyba ) followed. In 1915 he developed an urban planning plan for Greater Warsaw (Polish: Plan Wielkiej Warszawy ) and in 1916 he worked on the first regulation plan for Warsaw (Polish: Szkic wstepny planu regulacyjnego ). From 1918 he held the chair for urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology, which he co-founded in 1915 . At the beginning of the 1920s, the Warsaw Batory High School and the National Museum were built based on his designs. He was also responsible for the plans for the Warsaw through railway (Polish: Linia średnicowa ) and for the “Varsovie” restaurant building at 5 Nowy Świat Street .

During the German occupation in Warsaw Tołwiński was the head of the urban planning expert commission and from 1943 to 1945 dean of the underground architecture faculty of the Politechnika. An arrest in autumn 1942 was followed by a two-month prison term in Pawiak . After the war Tołwiński became an advisor to the Office for Reconstruction of the Capital . From 1947 to 1951 he held the chair for urban planning at the University of Krakow .

Tołwiński is an outstanding representative of neo-baroque and modernist architecture in Poland. His book "Urbanistyka" (German: Städtebau ) became the standard and basic work for urban planners in Poland. He was a member of the Polska Korporacja Akademicka Związek Akademików Gdańskich Wisła .

Tołwiński objects

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  The National Museum in Warsaw

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  The neo-baroque Stefan Batory high school in Warsaw

Web links

• Curriculum vitae and photos of realized objects at Warszawa1939 (in Polish)
• Article on Tołwiński with a list of objects in the Warsaw Wiki (in Polish)

literature

• Niels Gutschow, Barbara Klain, Destruction and Utopia. Urban planning Warsaw 1939-1945 , Junius-Verlag, ISBN 3-88506-223-2 , Hamburg 1994, p. 177