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Kazimierz Kwiatkowski (2 July 1944 – 19 March 1997) was a Polish architect and conservationist. He is well known for his efforts to preserve historical and archaeological sites in Vietnam such as the Imperial City of Huế, Hội An and Mỹ Sơn, which are currently in the World Heritage Site list of UNESCO.
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Kazimierz Kwiatkowski (2 July 1944 – 19 March 1997) was a Polish architect and conservationist. He is well known for his efforts to preserve historical and archaeological sites in Vietnam such as the Imperial City of Huế, Hội An and Mỹ Sơn, which are currently in the World Heritage Site list of UNESCO.
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Early life He was born in 1944 in the town of Pachole at Lublin Voivodeship. He was the only child of his family. His parents were farmers. His father was persecuted due to his opposition to the communist government of Poland and Kwiatkowski grew up without his father until the age of 9, when his father was amnestied in 1953, following the death of Joseph Stalin. Kwiatkowski had a talent for drawing since childhood. At the age of 15, he entered the boarding school in Zamość and graduated in 1963. After graduation from high school, he then applied to two universities at the same time: the Academy of Arts in Kraków and Kraków Polytechnic University. His admission was confirmed in advance from the Kraków Polytechnic University. Being able to study at this faculty was an extremely rare event for someone from a peasant family like him, so he decided to study architecture at Kraków Polytechnic University. He graduated with a master's degree in architectural engineering in 1969.
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Career In September 1969, Kwiatkowski worked as an assistant in the Office of Urban Planning at the Lublin Provincial Committee. From March 1972 to October 1974, he worked as a designer at the branch of the State Company - Office of Monuments Restoration (Państwowe Przedsiębiorstwo Pracowni Konserwacji Zabytków - PP PKZ) in Lublin. During this time, he passed the national exam and received a license to practice construction and design. From mid-November 1974 till the end of November 1979 he worked at the General Construction Research and Design Office “Miastoprojekt” (City Design). As head of the design team, he was in charge of spatial planning as well as urban planning. His first work related to the protection of monuments was investigating ethnic works built in the local area, for the purpose of serving the construction of the Lublin Village Open Air Museum. In December 1979, he returned to work at the Office of Monuments Restoration (PP PKZ).
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Vietnam In 1981, he was assigned to lead the monuments restoration mission in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Monuments in Vietnam at that time, after 40 years of war, were badly damaged, so the Vietnamese authorities called for international help in saving monuments. The Polish-Vietnamese Monument Restoration Mission is the first project of its kind that the Office of Monuments Restoration has undertaken in Asia. It was an important challenge for PP PKZ, and Kazimierz Kwiatkowski was the only expert who undertook the task. Since the early 1980s, he volunteered to go to Vietnam to survey the archaeological remains at Mỹ Sơn, which also became the place where he has been with the longest during his time in Vietnam - nearly 16 years. In 1981, Kwiatkowski started working at Hội An and immediately realized the potential of this city. He, along with Vietnamese experts, researched and prepared a program to restore medieval works of the Cham culture in central Vietnam. The mission focused first on the brick worshiping towers at the holy site complex in the former Amaravati territory of the ancient Champa kingdom. Kwiatkowski made efforts to lobby the local government to take measures to preserve and restore the…
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Later life Working in Vietnam for 17 years, Kwiatkowski died on 19 March 1997 at a hotel in Huế, due to a heart attack while still actively participating in the restoration of the Imperial City. His remains were later transferred to Poland. His funeral was held in Lublin on April 2. Kwiatkowski was buried in the Catholic cemetery next to the Church of St. Agnieszka on Kalinowszczyzna Street in Lublin.
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Personal life and legacy In 1968, Kwiatkowski married Więcesława Porzadna, who was a student at the Mathematics Department of Jagiellonian University. They had three children; two sons and one daughter. In 2007, the city council of Hội An erected a monument of Kwiatkowski to commemorate his merits. The monument is located on Trần Phú Street of Hội An. In 2009, another statue commemorating Kwiatkowski also began its construction in Mỹ Sơn. In 1999, a collection of articles about him was published in Vietnam with the title Kazik, ký ức bạn bè ('Kazik, Memories of Friends'). In 2017, on the 20th anniversary of his death, the Vietnam-Poland Friendship Association together with Polish Embassy in Hanoi organized an event to commemorate Kwiatkowski.
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Awards and decorations He was also awarded numerous decorations by the Office of Monuments Restoration.
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Bibliography Serafinowicz, Jacek; Kwiatkowski, Kazimierz (2006). Polski słownik biograficzny konserwatorów zabytków, red. Henryk Kondziela, Hanna Krzyżanowska, z. 2. Poznań: Wydaw. Poznański. ISBN 8371774168.