Nationality French Polish Occupation Architect | Alma mater Ecole des Beaux Arts Died 1999, Paris, France | |
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Parents Stanisław Franciszek Łukasiewicz | ||
Lukasiewicz Christophe was a French architect born in 1933 in Lublin and died in 1999 in Paris.
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He won in 1972 the first prize of Plan Architecture Nouvelle No. 1 (P.A.N., now called Europan) and opened his practice in 1975 by realizing this competition project.
Biography
Graduated in 1958 from the Warsaw Polytechnic University with an engineering degree in architecture, Christophe Lukasiewicz was about to complete a double degree at the Warsaw Academia Sztuk Pieknych (Ecole des Beaux Arts). Thus he met a friend, the painter Fangor, today recognized for his visual work, (Visual art and kinetic art). He also, during his studies, worked for the architect Georges Soltan (close to Team 10 designs). He offered him to work in Paris.
Assistant at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, he worked with Jozef i Ewa Brukalski as project manager in the office of the architect and professor Emile Aillaud.
Author of a large number of city plans, Christophe Lukasiewicz developed a new design of the Town Planning: parks and gardens surrounded by terraced buildings, shopping streets and markets. He developed the classic city plan (London crescent) or garden city plan seeking to build a city resulting from a millennium urbanisation (diversity of scenery, withdrawal alignment, arcades, terraces). Using industrial prefabrication process, he created an aesthetic in which useful constructions becomes decorative by his play (See Melun-Senart The arcades ILM). With this project, he initiated the creation of a cubist city.
He used during these projects all forms of architecture that connect with the environment and nature: patio, balcony, terraces, winder gardens and bay-windows around trees and green spaces.
Painter, like his father, Stanislas Lukasiewicz, architect of the mid-century in Warsaw, he had represented the environment to recreate it.
He is the author of the footbridge and lifts that allow access to the Jardin Atlantique above the Gare Montparnasse in Paris (see architecture mobile). He suggested applying its garden town planning to the Paris density. He produced a functional, human and cultural design for the city (according to English biography of Ch. Lukasiewicz) , proposing the restoration of a mansion or new layout for the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, with his friend and architect Andre Schuch (architect of all new kiosk for newspapers in Paris) .
At the very end of his life and returning to Warsaw, he created in Wolomin, near Warsaw, a city generated by successive acquisitions with the same alternate architectures which give character to houses and creates urban unity. At the same time, Christophe Lukasiewicz wrote an architectural treaty (not published) completing his first book, Urbanisme des places et des rues (first book).
"In architecture forms result from the need of shelter, the search of economic and of human comfort" Christophe Lukasiewicz, architecture Treaty, circa 1994.
The grand part of Christophe Lukasiewicz archives are available at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine of Paris department of the French Institute of Architecture (IFA).