(b Warsaw, 30 Oct 1908; d 1982). Polish architect and urban planner. He graduated in architecture (1932) from Warsaw Technical University, where he also taught. After 1945 he worked as director of an architectural design studio at BOS, the Office for the Reconstruction of the Capital, in Warsaw. His works include the Dziekanka students’ hostel (1946–50) in the reconstructed Krakowskie Przedmiescie, Warsaw’s historic thoroughfare, and International Press House (1949–59) in Nowy Swiat Street; both were designed in a pastiche style to blend with the historic buildings. Stepinski was a member of a team of architects at BOS that was responsible for two enormous development schemes in Warsaw following World War II; the other members of the team were Stanislaw Jankowski (b 1911), who ran an urban planning studio at BOS, Jan Knothe (1912–77), who ran another architecture studio, and Józef Sigalin (1909–83), an architect and the Deputy Director of BOS. Both Jankowski and Knothe studied architecture at Warsaw Technical University, Jankowski subsequently also studying at the University of Liverpool (1946).