CEZARY BEDNARSKI

Cezary is the founder-director of Studio Bednarski Ltd, which he established in 2001. Between 1994 and 2001 he was a founder/director of Studio E Architects. He is a chartered architect with 45 years of varied experience, which includes a number of master plans, buildings and structures, including private residences, many of them listed and most of them located in historic and protected areas of London, where he has been working since 1981. He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and of the RIBA Panel of Competition Assessors, a Fellow and past Advisory Council Member of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA); a Fellow and a past Member of Fellows Committee of the 21st Century Trust / Salzburg Global Seminar, a member of the London Borough of Brent Design Review Panel and the London Borough of Islington Conservation and Design Panel, an architectural consultant to UNESCO. Between 2007 and 2011 he was an architectural and urban advisor to the mayor of Warsaw, and in 2009 World Architecture Festival World’s Best House Award jury member. He was also the Chief Consultant in Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscaping and Urban Aesthetics to Zwierzyniec Town Council ( a historic garden town in SE Poland ). He frequently works in sensitive urban locations and has worked as the architect member of an international consortium for an EU funded project involving Via Appia in Rome. For UNESCO he dealt with cases of contemporary structures and urban environments proposed in internationally sensitive historic contexts in Cairo and Luxor in Egypt. He was an Advisor to the Acholi people of Northern Uganda, and to Lekki Beltway Concession Development Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria, and recently completed four eco-town master plans in Angola.

Cezary won a number of commendations and awards, including the Manser Medal 2001, given for the best one-off house ( in a Barnes conservation area ) designed by an architect and built in the UK between 1998 and 2001, Ideal Home Show Blue Ribbon Award 2013 for the best self-built house, Award for Residential Design (“for designs that push forward the boundaries of house design”) in the Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Awards 2012, and RIBA Awards. In 2006 his low cost housing project in Nairobi won the CITYSCAPE / ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW global award for community projects in the emerging world (selected from over 250 projects). He was the outright winner in 23 UK and international architectural, urban and bridge design competitions.

Cezary served as an external examiner at the University of Cardiff Architecture School, was a Rome Scholar with the British School at Rome, a Diploma Unit Master at the Architectural Association School of Architecture ( jointly with the artist Peter Fink ), and a visiting Professor of Architecture at Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, in Havana, Cuba. He lectures internationally and publishes on the subject of architecture, design of bridges, transportation, photovoltaics and energy efficient design. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.

Cezary was invited as a participant in the Polish Section BBC World Service debate on Iraq, with Peace Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa and a Labour politician, he was consulted by Daimler Chrysler on Smart car design and its marketing in the UK, and by Toyota cars on car interior design. He was a volunteer architectural advisor to the Sociological Research Centre of the SOLIDARITY Trade Union in Warsaw. In 2009 Cezary was featured among 34 creative Londoners of Polish origins selected for LONDON CREATIVES POLISH ROOTS exhibition at the Museum of London. In 2014 the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs named Cezary as a recipient of the Polish Medal of Bene Merito, first time given to an architect.