(b Dorpat, Russia [now Tartu, Estonia], 21 April 1908; d Warsaw, 25 Aug 1988). Polish architect, designer and teacher. He graduated in architecture from Warsaw Technical University (1936) and then received a scholarship to study in Italy. His work in the 1930s included the design of posters in the style of Tadeusz Gronowski (b 1894); he also designed two tourist hostels (1933–5; with Tadeusz Sieczkowski), in Czarnohora, Ukraine, and he won first prize in a competition (1935; with others) for the development of Pole Mokotowskie, the southern quarter of Warsaw, which was not executed. Other work included interior and exhibition design, for example the interior of the Polish pavilion (1939) at the World’s Fair, New York. In 1938 he began a long teaching career at Warsaw Technical University; he first taught architectural design under Rudolf Swierczynski and after 1945 he taught architectural history and industrial design there. In 1945 he also became Director of the urban planning studio at BOS, the Office for the Reconstruction of the Capital. One of his major works was the design (1954; with Marek Leykam and Czeslaw Rajewski) of the Tenth Anniversary Stadium, Warsaw, in the form of a Classical amphitheatre partly built from the rubble of buildings destroyed in World War II. His other important work was Supersam (1959–62; with Maciej Krasinski), a large supermarket in Warsaw; his competition-winning design incorporated a tensile roof structure. Hryniewiecki became Professor in modern architecture at Warsaw Technical University in 1968 and was a well-known teacher and lecturer both in Poland and abroad. He was also a consultant to many industrial design offices, noted for his innovative approach. After 1972 he worked in collaboration with the International Institute of Industrial Building (III) in Vienna.

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