Maria Jadwiga Chodźko-Zachwatowicz

Architect, historic preservationist

Aliaksandr Shuba, last edited on 08.06.2023

Name:

Maria Jadwiga Chodźko-Zachwatowicz

Life Dates:

1902 – 1994

Country:

Field of expertise:

Architectural design, historic preservation

Education:

Warsaw University of Technology

Short Biography and Work

Maria Jadwiga Chodźko-Zachwatowicz (1902-1994) was a Polish architect and monument preservation specialist. She was born on the 12th of March 1902 in Lublin. In 1933, she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology, when she became a member of of the Association of Polish Architects (Polish: Stowarzyszenie Architektów Polskich, SARP). 

In 1936, she participated in the competition for the projects of residential houses for the Society of Workers’ Housing Estates TOR in Warsaw, where her project was marked. After the Second World War, she worked on the reconstruction of the old town of Warsaw.

She was involved in the reconstructions:

  • The tenement house at ul. Wąski Dunaj 20 in Warsaw (with Mieczysław Rzecki)
  • The school of the Convent of the Sacraments at the Rynek Nowe Miasto 2 in Warsaw (1945-1952)
  • The St. Kazimierz Church of the Sisters of the Sacraments (Kościół św. Kazimierza (sakramentek)) at the Rynek Nowego Miasta 2  in Warsaw (1947–1952)
  • The Sapieha Palace at ul. Zakroczymska 6 in Warsaw (1951-1955)
  • The reconstruction of the Old Town in Lublin (co-authors with: Jerzy Gajewski, Czesław Gawdzik, Włodzimierz Geppert, Mieczysław Kuzma, Jerzy Majdecki, Tadeusz Makarski, Jan Pawłowski, Aleksander Wolski, Józef Zemcikiewicz – 2nd degree State Prize – team award (1955).
  • Królikarnia in Mokotów and its adaptation into the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture in the Mokotów district of Warsaw(completed in 1965).
  • The complex of tenement houses at ul. Brzozowa 27/29 in Warsaw
  • The reconstructions of tenement houses in the old town of Warsaw

She was married to architect Jan Zachwatowicz (1900-1983). They had two children Krystyna and Katarzyna.

Sources

About Królikarnia. The official website of t he Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture that is part of the National Museum in Warsaw. http://www.krolikarnia.mnw.art.pl/en/about-krolikarnia/

Arch. Maria Jadwiga Chodźko-Zachwatowicz. https://www.archimemory.pl/pokaz/maria_chodzko-zachwatowicz,2117

Faryna-Paszkiewicz H., Omilanowska M., Pasieczny R. Atlas zabytków architektury w Polsce. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2001, p. 308.