Maciej Nowicki (architect)

Nowicki was born in Chita in Siberia. After the Second World War he received a commission to work on plans for the reconstruction of Poland's capital city, Warsaw. In December 1945 he was posted to New York City as an official delegate of the Polish state, to advertise the rebuilding of Poland.Nick Hodge [http://www.krakowpost.com/article/2324 Maciej Nowicki: A Passage to India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614202157/http://www.krakowpost.com/article/2324 |date=2012-06-14 }}, Kracow Post, 6 September 2010. Retrieved 2012-01-15.

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

His wife, Stanislawa Nowicki (Polish:Nowicka), was also an architect who taught from 1951 to 1977 at the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite web|title = AIArchitect This Week {{!}} Happy Birthday, Stanislawa Nowicki!|url = http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek07/0330/0330n_nowicki.htm|website = info.aia.org|accessdate = 2015-10-16}}

Nowicki died around midnight on 31 August/1 September 1950, in the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 903 near Wadi Natrun in the Western Desert of Egypt. He had been returning from India where he was chief architect designing the new city of Chandigarh.

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• {{cite book | last = Stiller | first = Adolph | title = Matthew Nowicki - Architect in Poland, USA, India. Architektur im Ringturm XXX | publisher = Müry Salzmann Verlag | location = Salzburg | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-3-99014-072-7 }}

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• [http://www.cracow-life.com/news/news/25-Maciej_Nowicki:_A_Tribute_to_a_Neglected_Genius "Maciej Nowicki: A Tribute to a Neglected Genius"]
• [http://www.ncstatefair.org/dorton.htm J.S. Dorton Arena] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060528191112/http://www.ncstatefair.org/dorton.htm |date=2006-05-28 }}
• [http://www.hetman.augustow.pl/ Gasthouse "Hetman", designed by Maciej Nowicki, Stanisława Nowicka and W. Stokowski]
• [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(+@OR(@field(OTHER+@band(Sandecka,+Stanislawa,+))+@field(AUTHOR+@band(Sandecka,+Stanislawa,+)))+@field(COLLID+pos))Library of Congress]
• [https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00190 Guide to the Matthew Nowicki Drawings and Other Material 1944-2011]
• [http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex107lvo/ex107lvo.htm Web Poster Exhibition - Polish Art Deco posters in Lviv]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724232331/http://www.sarp.org.pl/wyd/pokaz.php?id=1490&tytul=Konferencje%20i%20kongresy Nowicki 100th anniversary conference]
• [http://www.sarp.org.pl/pliki/arch-02.pdf Maciej Nowicki; humanista, wizjoner i architekt, p. 70-74]

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