Roman Feliński (4 February 1886 – 22 March 1953) was a Polish architect. He authored the first Polish book on
urban planning
Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...
. He worked on development plans for
Gdynia
Gdynia is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With an estimated population of 257,000, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk ...
and
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 ...
, and designed over 150 buildings, among others, the ''Magnus'' Department Store and a dozen or so tenement houses in
Lviv
Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...
.
[J. Lewicki. "Gdynia development plans under the guidance of Roman Feliński against a background of his urban planning work". ''Modernism in Europe - Modernism in Gdynia. Architecture of 1920s and 1930s and Its Protection''. 2009. p. 81.]
References
Further reading
* J. Lewicki. ''Roman Feliński architekt i urbanista, Pionier nowoczesnej architektury.'' Neriton. 2007.
1886 births
1953 deaths
Architects from Lviv
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Polish Austro-Hungarians
Technical University of Munich alumni
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