Wojciech Włodzimierz Buliński (13 November 1929 - 24 November 2021) was a
Polish architect and professor who was dean of the Faculty of Architecture at
Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology from 1987 to 1993. He is noted as among the first architects in Poland to begin designing in the modernist style after
the 'thaw' and decline of
socialist realism which followed the death of
Joseph Stalin
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and
Bolesław Bierut
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.
Buliński designed the Biprocemwap office building in
Kraków
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from 1958 to 1960, with it being completed in 1963.
It is described as heavily influenced by the work of
Le Corbusier
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,
and seen as the closest embodiment of Corbusier's themes in the modernist architecture being produced in Poland at the time.
From 1971 to 1972, Buliński designed the Centre of Preventative Medicine with Ludwik Konior. Construction on the building was finished in 1974, but it was left unused for several years. He also designed the building of the Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics at the
AGH University of Science and Technology.
In 2001, Buliński was awarded the
Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 2013, he was a recipient of the Housing Environment 'Bene Merentibus' Medal for "outstanding merits in shaping urban architectural spaces and many years' teaching and scientific activities in Poland and on the international arena".
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1929 births
2021 deaths
20th-century Polish architects
Architects from Kraków
Brutalist architects
Modernist architects
Academic staff of Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta