We begin Wednesday with sad news—Professor Zbigniew Karol Zuziak, architect, academic teacher, specialist in urban planning and spatial planning, university professor, member of the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Committee on Spatial Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences, author of numerous scientific publications, has died.
Zbigniew Karol Zuziak was born in 1944, learned and studied in Cracow, where he graduated in 1968 with a degree in architecture and urban planning from the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology. At PK he also defended his doctoral thesis „Selected issues of spatial planning related to the development of motorized tourism (with reference to spatial development of mountain lands)” (1976) done under the direction of Zbigniew Wzorek. In 2000, at the Faculty of Architecture of the Krakow University of Technology, on the basis of his thesis „Strategies for revitalization of downtown space” and his scientific achievements, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in the discipline of architecture and urban planning, specialization—spatial planning and urban planning.
In 2009 Zbigniew Karol Zuziak became an associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology (Institute of Urban and Regional Design), he was also a full professor at the Ignacy Łukasiewicz Rzeszów University of Technology at the Faculty of Construction, Environmental Engineering and Architecture and the Higher Technical School in Katowice at the Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Applied Arts.
The professor was a member of the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the Committee on Spatial Planning of the Country of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), as well as chairman of the Cracow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture).
Professor Zuziak was the author of numerous research papers and scientific publications, including. „Plans and designs for metropolitan areas: between selective and structural approaches” (2005), „Matter of city architecture”, „Planning and designing for sustainable development of a historic city: the case study of Krakow” (2006), „New inhabitable space”, „Ecological definition of urbanism” (2007), „Urban revitalization and urban planning theory”, „Urban planning and metropolitan marketing” (2012), „Strategic Metropolitan Projects. Examples from Hamburg, Potsdam and Berlin” (2013), „The Idea of the City and Planning Theories” (2015), „The Notion of Order and The Spatial Logic of a New Polis: Three Approaches to the Problem of Rationality in the Contemporary Philosophy of Urbanism” (2016), „Urban Structures and Metropolitan Planning, (Urban structures and metropolitan planning)” (2017).
During his scientific activity, he was a promoter and reviewer of dozens of scientific, doctoral and postdoctoral theses and participated in numerous national and international conferences, including the International Architecture Biennale in Krakow.
