Maciej Nowicki (architect)

Matthew Nowicki (born 26 June 1910 in Chita, Siberia; † August 31, 1950 near Cairo in Egypt; partly Matthew Nowitzki, maiden name Maciej Nowicki ) was a Polish architect.

Nowicki spent his childhood in Słomniczki in Krakow and in Chicago, where his father worked as Consul General in 1918. He studied architecture in Warsaw and designed in 1938 with Jan Bogusławski the Polish Pavilion for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. During the German occupation in Poland, he taught in the Warsaw underground. He was a member of the Home Army and was wanted by the Gestapo. After the war, Nowicki worked for a short time in the planning for the redevelopment of the center of Warsaw. In 1945 he emigrated to the United States. There, among other things, worked on the design for the UN headquarters and at the Dorton Arena in Raleigh ( North Carolina).

Nowicki died on the return flight from a town planning project for Chandigarh in India, in the crash of TWA Flight 903