Berlinerblau Tadeusz – (1906-1907, Lwów) – architect

He was a graduate of the Stanisław Jaworski Private Boys’ Gymnasium in Kraków (1925) and the Faculty of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1926–193. His diploma project was The Hotel on Kleparski Square in Kraków, was supervised by Professor Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz), and the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology (1931).

A member of the Association of Polish Architects (SAP) from 1931 and of the Warsaw branch of the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) until 1939, he was active in the work of SARP committees which dealt with urban planning and architectural issues in Warsaw (1935).

During his studies, he completed internships with the architects Zygmunt Tillinger and Stanisław Piotrowski, during which he assisted in the construction of the factory hall at the “Stradom” factory in Częstochowa and the building of the State Vodka Distillery in Kraków.

He later worked in the office of architect Jan Wils in The Hague (the Netherlands), after which he conducted private architectural practices in Warsaw and the Netherlands. He promoted modern architecture and Dutch social housing through professional journals and at the exhibition “Your Own Cheap Home” (Tani Dom Własny, 1932). He came from the industrial, bourgeois of the Berlinerblau and Oppenheim families.

He was killed in Lwów during a German extermination operation.

Selected Publications:

•  “Dom, Osiedle, Mieszkanie”: Budowa domu biurowego towarzystwa asekuracyjnego O. L. V. E. H w Haadze (1933, no. 7-8), Praca i wypoczynek w mieszkaniu (1935, no. 1), Spółdzielnie mieszkaniowe w Holandji (1936, no. 5-6), Z zagadnień planowania tanich mieszkań w Holandii (1938, no. 8-9, co-author: Koen Limperg);
• “Architektura i Budownictwo”: Holenderskie mieszkania na jednej kondygnacji (flatbouw) (1936, no. 1);
• “Arkady”: Osiedla pod Sztokholmem (1937, no. 4);
• “Pion”: Nowoczesna architektura (1934, no. 9, translation of an article by Sybold van Ravensteyn).

This biography comes from the Dictionary of Architects, a chapter in the book “Architects and the Aryan Paragraph: The Case of SARP (1934–1939)” by Agnieszka Tomaszewicz and Joanna Majczyk, published by EMG Publishing House in 2025.