Maciej Miłobędzki (born in 1959 in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

) – is a Polish architect and partner with

JEMS Architects JEMS Architekci is an architectural firm based in Warsaw, Poland. It was officially established in 1988 by Olgierd Jagiełło, Maciej Miłobędzki, Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski and Wojciech Zych (an economist and the CEO of JEMS) who had worked toge ...

, Warsaw.

Biography

Miłobędzki was born in 1959 in

to Adam Miłobędzki (1924–2003) and his wife, Joanna (1927–1988). His grandfather was Tadeusz Miłobędzki. In 1985 he graduated from the

Warsaw University of Technology The Warsaw University of Technology () is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professors (including 145 titular professors). The student body ...

. In 1988, still under the socialist regime, he founded together with Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski and

Olgierd Jagiełło Algirdas (; , ; – May 1377) was List of Lithuanian monarchs, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377. With the help of his brother Kęstutis (who defended the western border of the Duchy) he created an empire stretching from the pre ...

the architectural studio called

JEMS Architekci JEMS Architekci is an architectural firm based in Warsaw, Poland. It was officially established in 1988 by Olgierd Jagiełło, Maciej Miłobędzki, Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski and Wojciech Zych (an economist and the CEO of JEMS) who had worked to ...

. Among their best-known designs are the Hoover Square in Warsaw (2012), the Polish Embassy in Berlin (2012) and the

Raczyński Library The Raczyński Library ( Polish: ''Biblioteka Raczyńskich w Poznaniu'') is a public library founded by Count Edward Raczyński in Poznań. The library's building was erected in 1822–1828 with the financial support of Edward Raczyński Found ...

extension in

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(2014). In 2002 he with JEMS Architekci members:

, Jerzy Szczepanik-Dzikowski and Marcin Sadowski received the

SARP Honorary Award The SARP Honorary Award (Polish: ''Honorowa Nagroda SARP'') is one of the two most prominent and significant annual architectural prizes in Poland, and it's awarded by the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) in recognition of the outstandin ...

. In 2015 they won the

SARP Award of the Year The SARP Award of the Year () is a Polish architecture prize established in 1983. It is awarded by the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) to the designers of the most significant contemporary buildings, and it's carried out under the honourab ...

for their design for the International Conference Centre in Katowice. The JEMS Architekci has no central person. Maciej Miłobędzki, as one of the key architects, usually acts the role of the equivalent of the artistic director. Mostly, he prepares the first sketches, watches over the visual and artistic setting of the projects.

References

1959 births Living people Architects from Warsaw Warsaw University of Technology alumni {{Poland-bio-stub