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Wojciech Lesnikowski
 acdesign@ku.edu
Office:  307 Marvin Hall
Phone:  785.864.3192
Fax:  785.864.5185
Wojciech Lesnikowski
Don Hatch Distinguished Professor

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Architectural Design: Large scale buildings, current high-tech, future technologies, experimental architecture
  • Architectural History Theories
  • Aesthetics of Modern Architecture
  • Architecture as Industrial Art
  • Corporate Practice in Contemporary Architecture

Academic Areas

  • Architecture
Areas of Expertise

  • Advanced Architectural Design - Large Scale Buildings, Cutting Edge Technologies
  • Architectural History and Theories of Architecture
  • Architectural Publications
  • European Current Architecture and Practice
  • International Airport and Skyscraper Design
Education
  • Master of Architecture and Urban Planning, Polytechnic Inst., Poland, 1961
Professional Experience

  • Poland, France, United States, Japan and China: Housing estates, public buildings, skyscrapers, airports
Projects

Airport, Krakow
Airport, Warsaw
Airport, Warsaw
Cathedral, Warsaw
Government Center, Taiwan
Hospital, Chicago
Library, Osaka, Japan
Museum of Aviation, Krakow
Office Complex, Taiwan
Office Building, Chicago
Office Building, Chicago
Opera House, St. Louis
Skyscraper, Hong Kong
Skyscraper, New York
Technology Center, Shanghai, China


Current Activities

  • Design Consultant to HOK Corporation, St. Louis - aviation and general design
  • Associate Editor, Architektura, Poland
Academic Experience

  • Professor at: Ecole des Beaux Arts Paris, Yale University, Pratt Institue, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Kansas
  • Visiting Professor at: Art Institute of Chicago, University of Texas in Lubbock, Delft Polytechnic of Prague, Polytechnic of Warsaw, Polytechnic of Budapest
  • Summer Programs: France, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, Austria
Publications
  • Books 
    "Rationalism and Romaniticism in Architecture", "New French Architecture", "Architecture of Germany between Two World Wars", "Modernism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland", "Architecture Studio of Paris", and "Death by Mediocrity"

    French
    German
    Polish


  • Theoretical and professional articles
    United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, China and Japan
  • International Awards
    Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Letters of the French Republic
    Fulbright Grant
    Graham Foundation Multiple Grants
    German Academy of Science Grant
    National endowment for Humanities Grant
    Peshiney Industries Grant