Word: jacek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacek Wozniakowski, a Polish journalist and university lecturer, discussed recent changes in the life of his country since the Poznam Riots of October...
After fighting in the anti-Nazi underground in Warsaw, being captured by the Germans in the wake of the 1944 uprising, and being liberated by General Patton's U.S. Third Army, big, blond Witold von Henneberg and his brother Jacek made their way to the West, determined to become architects in the free world. Their father Wilhelm, vice president of the Polish Architectural Society, stayed behind, and in the period of increasing Russian influence on Polish artistic life was ordered to conform to backward Moscow-style architecture or not work...
...boys studied in Italy and England, finally came to the U.S., where Jacek completed his architectural studies and later taught at Harvard. The youthful Von Hennebergs, 34 and 30, set up shop in Cambridge, Mass. Last January, with their associate, another Polish refugee, Bohdan Hryniewicz, 27, they entered an international competition, sponsored by Poland's Committee for the Reconstruction of Warsaw, to design a multistory apartment building for low-income families. Said Witold: "The competition was a plebiscite in which architects together with technical and economic specialists would freely decide how to build multistory apartment buildings under Polish conditions...
Credit for a most perceptive job of directing must go to Harold Stone, who has created a tense drama of character out of what could have been a mere development of philosophies. Technically, he was aided by the naturalistic and effective settings of Jacek von Henneberg...