Matthew Nowicki

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Matthew Nowicki

American architect

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Western architecture
After World War II
…structural geometry, best indicated by Matthew Nowicki’s (1910–49) sports arena at Raleigh, North Carolina (1952–53), in which two tilted parabolic arches, supported by columns, and a stretched-skin roof enclose a colossal space devoid of interior supports. In 1949 Nowicki had challenged Louis Sullivan’s precept, form follows function, with another, form…
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…structural geometry, best indicated by Matthew Nowicki’s (1910–49) sports arena at Raleigh, North Carolina (1952–53), in which two tilted parabolic arches, supported by columns, and a stretched-skin roof enclose a colossal space devoid of interior supports. In 1949 Nowicki had challenged Louis Sullivan’s precept, form follows function, with another, form…
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