Ryszard Jurkowski | |
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Born | Ryszard Piotr Jurkowski 28 May 1945
Sosnowiec, Poland |
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | Tadeusz Kosciuszko University of Technology |
Occupation | Architect |
Awards |
SARP Honorary Award SARP Award of the Year Silver and Gold Cross of Merit Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta |
Practice | AiR Jurkowscy Architekci |
Buildings | Home Army Museum,
Kraków City Museum, Żory |
Projects | Music Centre, Kraków SGH Innovative Space Centre, Warsaw |
Ryszard Piotr Jurkowski (born 28 May 1945) is a Polish architect and urban planner. He is noted for his contemporary and embracing minimalism design [1] of residential, commercial, educational, industrial and civic buildings, and for his fight against the monotonous and dreary architecture of the communist era. [2] He is one of Poland’s most prolific architects. [3] [4]
Ryszard Jurkowski was born in Sosnowiec on 28 May 1945, [5] where he also went to Bolesław Prus Secondary School. In 1969 he graduated with a master's degree in architecture from Kraków University of Technology, [5] [6] subsequently obtaining the professional qualifications to practice under the title 'architect'. [5]
In 1969 he joined the Regional Municipal Building Company in Sosnowiec, but two years later began working for a large architectural firm Investprojekt in Katowice. [5] [7] Since 1990 he has been a senior partner at AiR Jurkowscy Architekci, [5] [6] a practice he had established with his wife [7] [8] who also holds a degree in architecture. [9]
Between 1991 and 1996 Jurkowski was a senior lecturer at Kraków University of Technology and in the years 1992-1998 and 2003-2006 the chairman of the Regional Commission for Urban Planning and Architecture in Katowice [5] He was also appointed a member of Poland’s General Commission for Urban Planning and Architecture in Warsaw [5] [3] and he played a significant role in creating the Act of 15 December 2000 on professional self-governing bodies for architects. [10]
He was the chief coordinator of the professional architects' environments [11] and in 2000 was elected the president of the Association of Polish Architects, and held this position until 2006. [5] [12]
Jurkowski is a sponsor and promoter of publishing architectural and design books and, in 2018 orchestrated the publishing of the first Polish edition of On Adam’s House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History (Polish: O rajskim domu Adama: Idea pierwotnej chaty w historii architektury), a literary work on the history and philosophy of architecture written by the foremost historian and critic Professor Joseph Rykwert, [13] and published under the patronage of the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning (NIAIU) and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. [14]
He is also a member of the Polish Architecture Council. [15] and one of the judges of the Collegium of Competition Judges SARP. [16] [17]
Ryszard Jurkowski is the winner of SARP Honorary Award 1999, [5] [18] SARP Award of the Year 1987 [5] and 2010 [19] [20] and of the 1st and 2nd degree Award of the Ministry of Construction (now the Ministry of Infrastructure). [5]
He is the recipient of the Honoris Gratia 2011 [7] and of the Silver and Gold Cross of Merit in the recognition of his achievements [21]. In 2013 he was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Award for the Home Army Museum in Kraków [1]. He is also the winner of Brick Award Polska 2013 [22].
In 2012 he has received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta from the President of Poland for his outstanding contribution to Polish architecture. [10]
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