Jump to content

Maciej Nowicki (architect)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Rodan44 (talk | contribs) at 18:29, 10 March 2011 (Repairing links to disambiguation pages - You can help!). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Dorton Arena in Raleigh designed by Nowicki

Matthew Nowicki (in Poland known as Maciej Nowicki) (born June 26, 1910 in Chita in Siberia, died 31 August 1950 in the Libyan Desert near Wadi Natrun in Egypt) was a Polish architect.

Nowicki was the architect of the J.S. Dorton Arena in Raleigh built after his death in 1952. He was a member of the team working on the United Nations Headquarters. He was a chair of the Faculty of Architecture at North Carolina State University.

Nowicki died in the catastrophe of the TWA Flight 903 going back from India, where he had been designing the new city Chandigarh.