Adolf Ciborowski


Adolf Ciborowski was a Polish architect, urban planner and politician.

Life

Ciborowski was born on 25 May 1919 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1946. In the years 1947–1948 he worked as director of the City Planning Bureau in Szczecin. He was the Chief Architect of Warsaw between 1956 and 1964. He contributed to the rebuilding of Warsaw after the Second World War. He was hired as a planner for war-damaged Hannover and was the first foreigner to receive a town-planning prize from Leibniz University Hannover. He also worked as consultant on the master plan for Baghdad and supervised the Reconstruction of [Skopje 1963|reconstruction and urban plan] of Skopje alongside Stanisław Janowski after its destruction by an earthquake in 1963.
He was a member of the Polish Architects">Polish people">Polish Architects as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences. He also worked as a UNESCO and United Nations [Human Settlements Programme|UNCHS] advisor on the reconstruction of cities damaged by earthquakes. He died in 1987 and was buried at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.

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