The Machines Laboratory was built in 1925 under a project designed by
architect Witold Minkiewicz. A part of the Lviv Polytechnic’s historic core, it
is a bright example of a Neoclassical style educational technical institution
building where traditional and reinforced concrete constructions are combined.
According to the resolution of the Regional Executive Committee of the
Lviv Region number 393 dated 22 November 1988, the building was entered in the
Register of local monuments under protection number 309-M. Now it is used as an
academic building.
The complex of the convent belonging to the sisters of the Sacre Coeur (now an academic building of the Lviv Polytechnic National University) is an early example of the Neo-Classicist architecture in Lviv. According to the resolution number 130 dated 26 February 1980, the complex of the convent was entered into the register of local monuments under protection number 367.
The sports premises are
located in the former Racławice Panorama building, which
stands close to the main alley of Stryiskyi Park's upper terrace. It was
constructed in 1893 according to
the design of architect Ludwik Baldwin-Ramułt, and reconstructed in 1908. In
1944 during the bombardment of Lviv, the building was severely damaged. The
panorama was conserved, dismantled and kept in chests placed in the Bernardine
monastery until 1946 when it was moved to Wrocław, Poland. The building was in
derelict state until 1960s, when it was repaired and adapted for the needs of
Lviv Polytechnic sports department.
Jan Bagieński
– Jan
Aleksander Bagieński (24 January 1883, Soroca, Bessarabia – 12 June 1967, Lviv)
was an engineer architect and teacher.
Bagieński studied here, and later became a professor of architecture.
Leonard Marconi
– Leonard Marconi was a sculptor
and building
decorator, professor at the Higher Technical School in
Lviv.
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
Vyacheslav Sekretariuk
– Soviet and Ukrainian politician, Communist, economist. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Lviv City Council
of People's Deputies in 1975-1980.
Gabriel Sokolnicki
– An electrical engineer, an entrepreneur, an owner
and shareholder of several electric installation companies, who also was rector
and, for many years, professor of the Lviv Polytechnic. Sokolnicki implemented
a number of projects connected with electrification of cities and industrial
enterprises in interwar Poland.
Ivan Levynskyi
– One of the most renowned architects of Habsburg Lviv,
entrepreneur, one of the largest employers of his time in the city. His firm was
involved in the construction and renovation of countless structures throughout
Lviv and the region. Professor at the Higher Technical School, an active public
figure associated with the Ukrainian People's Movement.
Józef Awin
– (1883, Lviv — 1942,
Lviv, Yanivsky concentration camp) was an engineer, architect, restorer,
photographer, graphic artist, painter and watercolorist, historian and theorist
of art, collector.
Awin studied here at the Higher Technical School in 1902-1906.
Andrij Bojarov
– Media artist, researcher of Lviv and Ukrainian avant-garde, independent curator, architect. For the most part, he lives and
works between Ukraine, Poland and Estonia.
Vlodko (Volodymyr) Kaufmann
– An artist, graphic
artist, painter,
performer, curator. Since 1974, he has lived and worked in Lviv.
Mykhailo Frantsuzov
– A photographer, painter,
director of film photography. Lived and worked in Lviv.
Andriy Sahaidakovskyi
– A painter and graphic artist, author of installations, art objects, and
environments. Lives and works in Lviv.
Organizations
Polytechnic Society
Founded in 1876, functioned until 1939 (from 1913 known as the Polish
Polytechnic Society) — the first and leading non-governmental organization of technical
professionals in the crownland of Galicia. Combined the characteristics of a
trade union and a scientific society. Responsible for the founding of the
Industrial Museum in Lviv, the introduction to the city of electricity and the sewerage
system, etc.
The Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv was the first art organization in Lviv to operate from 1868 until the outbreak of the Second World War. The Society brought together artists and art connoisseurs, organized exhibitions, sold works of art and provided material support to artists.
This department was established in Lviv in 1871 — as the Department of Engineering was divided into separate specializations. Julian Zachariewicz was a head of the Deparment until 1898.
The Fraternal Aid Society of the Polytechnic School students
The Society began operating in 1861, officially in 1867. It was founded after
the pattern of a similar society in Warsaw primarily to
support poor students; over time, however, its activities also expanded to scientific
sphere as well as to that of politics. It was the largest and most numerous association of polytechnic students functioning until
1939.
