Matthew Nowicki (in Poland known as Maciej Nowicki) (26 June 1910 – 1 September 1950) was a Polish architect. He was chief architect of the new Indian city of

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which a ...

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Nowicki was born in Chita in

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...

. After the

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he received a commission to work on plans for the reconstruction of Poland's capital city,

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. In December 1945 he was posted to

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as an official delegate of the Polish state, to advertise the rebuilding of Poland.Nick Hodg
''Maciej Nowicki: A Passage to India''
, Kracow Post, 6 September 2010. Retrieved 2012-01-15. Nowicki was the architect of the

J.S. Dorton Arena J. S. Dorton Arena is a 7,610-seat multi-purpose arena located in Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina, on the grounds of the North Carolina State Fair. It opened in 1952. Architect Maciej Nowicki (architect), Maciej Nowicki of the No ...

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built in 1952 after his death. He was a member of the 'Workshop of Peace' team working on the

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. He was a chair of the Faculty of Architecture at North Carolina State University. His wife, Stanislawa Nowicki, was also an architect who taught from 1951 to 1977 at the

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Death

Nowicki died around midnight on 31 August/1 September 1950, in the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 903 near

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in the Western Desert of Egypt. He had been returning from India where he was chief architect designing the new city of Chandigarh.

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"Maciej Nowicki: A Tribute to a Neglected Genius"Gasthouse "Hetman", designed by Maciej Nowicki, Stanisława Nowicka and W. Stokowski

of Congress''

Guide to the Matthew Nowicki Drawings and Other Material 1944-2011Nowicki 100th anniversary conferenceMaciej Nowicki; humanista, wizjoner i architekt, p. 70-74
1910 births 1950 deaths Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Egypt 20th-century Polish architects North Carolina State University faculty Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1950 {{Poland-architect-stub

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