Polish Studies: Polish American Heritage Month

Polish-born architect known for introducing complex ideas and emotions into his designs.In 1989, Mr. Libeskind won the international competition to build the Jewish Museum in Berlin. A series of influential museum commissions followed, including the Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester; Denver Art Museum; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; and the Military History Museum, Dresden. In 2003, Studio Libeskind won another historic competition—to create a master plan for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. IStudio Libeskind quickly became involved with designing and realizing a large number of commercial centers, such as Westside in Bern, the Crystals at City Center in Las Vegas, and Ko-Bogen in Düsseldorf, as well as residential towers in Busan, Singapore, Warsaw, Toronto, Manila, and Sao Paulo.

Polish American leader of the New Urbanism movement. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, an architect and urban planner, is dean of the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, where she has taught since 1979, and a founding principal of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects and Town Planners (DPZ). In her work at DPZ, Ms. Plater-Zyberk has been a principal in the creation of the Traditional Neighborhood Development ordinance, a prescription for pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use, compact urban growth which has been incorporated into zoning codes across the country. Her recent publications include The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.

An award-winning Polish-born French architect and urban planner.Buczkowska received the Gold Medal and Special Prize at the Fifth World Biennale of Architecture at Sofia in 1989 for her project at Le Blanc-Mesnil and the silver medal and the Prix Delarue in 1994 from the Académie d'architecture for her collected work. In 2003, she received the Prix grand public de l’Architecture from the region Ile-de-France for her work at Le Blanc-Mesnil. She has been inspired by the theories of French architect and urban planner Jean Renaudie, as well as the way that towns were planned in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque period.She was innovative in her use of wood as a building material and advocates the use of free plan construction which facilitates movement through the building.

the first female architect to receive a diploma in Wroclaw after the Second World War. She worked mainly in Wrocław, first from 1951 as an employee and from 1963 to 1981 as studio manager of the planning combine “Miastoprojekt Wrocław” ( Wrocław City Design ). In the 1980s she founded her own, privately organized architectural office. In 1974 she received the Honorary Award from the Polish Association of Architects ( Nagroda Honorowa SARP ), which is considered the most important architectural award in Poland. She owed her success after the phase of state-imposed socialist realism to her continued interest in architectural developments abroad. Her work was in the circle of post-war and late modernism. In the 1960s she became increasingly inspired by the works of the Brutalists and Metabolists. From the end of the 1970s onwards, their buildings showed influences from critical regionalism.

prominent Chicago architect of residential, church and commercial buildings during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Index to the American Contractor's Chicago Building Permit Column, 1898–1912, maintained on the website of The Chicago Historical Society, lists 197 addresses where building permits were issued with John Flizikowski as architect. Among these are the White Eagle Brewing Co. (1911) and Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, home of the Polish Museum of America (1912).

Architect widely noted for his contemporary residential architecture. He is credited with pioneering the "design of rustic Modernist houses in the Hamptons", and with being an innovator in using natural materials and passive solar forms of design, and urban design.

Nobel Prize–winning poet, prose writer, essayist and translator. In 1931, he cofounded the Polish avant-garde literary group “Zagary”; his first collection of verse appeared in 1933. He spent most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses.In 1953, he published The Captive Mind (Alfred A. Knopf) and his novel, The Seizure of Power (Criterion Books, 1955), received the Prix Littéraire European from the Swiss Book Guild. In 1960, Miłosz moved to the United States to become a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He later became professor of Slavic languages and literature.

nonfiction author in education, science, disability and public administration; 3rd generation Polish American. She is the author of five leading books, including the forthcoming (2013), Public administration and disability: Community services administration in the US and Policy, program evaluation and research in disability: Community support for all (1999) author of over 100 professional publications, she continues her work to promote quality community life for all citizens.

Born in Warsaw, Poland. music historian, poet, editor, translator and publisher] founder of Moonrise Press.She published six poetry books: Rose Always – A Love Story, 2017; Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden, 2008; Slicing the Bread: Children's Survival Manual in 25 Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2014); Into Light: Poems and Incantations;The Rainy Bread – Poems from Exile,] 2016; an anthology Chopin with Cherries, 2010), and a multi-faith anthology Meditations on Divine Names.

Virginia Catherine Bulat, the pen and maiden name of Virginia Bulat Carroll, was an independent scholar and historian of local Illinois history. Bulat was a third-generation American of Austrian-Polish heritage.

best-selling author of multiple thrillers (Sign of the Cross, The Lost Throne)His eleventh novel, The Prisoner's Gold, won the Thriller Award for the 2016 Book of the Year at a gala hosted by the International Thriller Writers (ITW) in New York City on July 9, 2016. His works have also been honored by the Florida Book Awards and named a Literary Guild's featured selection.

Polish-born award-winning theater, film and TV actress in Poland and the United States. She gained critical acclaim in the early 1960s that culminated in breakthrough performances in The Saragossa Manuscript (1964, dir. Wojciech Jerzy Has), Marriage of Convenience (1966, dir. Stanisław Bareja) and Everything for Sale (1969, dir. Andrzej Wajda). Czyżewska received the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress in 1990 for Crowbar.

The Polish-born actress specialized in Shakespearean roles. first in Europe than America..when she came to Southern California in 1876 with her husband Charles Bozenta Chlapowski (known in America as Count Bozenta), and a small group of friends, including the future novelist and Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz (international best-selling author of "Quo Vadis").

comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film; of Polish Jewish descent. He was known for his comic timing and the ability to cause laughter with a long pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated summation "Well! " His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major influence on the sitcom genre.

mother was of Polish descent. He was an American film and television actor and screenwriter. He was noted for his roles in several Hollywood films during the 1950s and 1960s including Rebel Without a Cause and Giant along with his starring role in the ABC television series The Rebel (1959–1961). He also led the cast of several Japanese productions, including Frankenstein Conquers the World, (Godzilla vs.) Monster Zero, and The Killing Bottle.

Polish film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between the 1910s and 1930s

An American actor of Polish descent perhaps best known as the voice of Daddy Warbucks on the radio program Little Orphan Annie and later as "The Old Ranger", the first host of the syndicated western anthology television series, Death Valley Days.

actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist (paternal great-grandfather of Polish ancestry). She first came to fame as a child actress after being discovered by David Lynch, who cast her in Dune (1984) and Twin Peaks (1990). Witt was a regular on Cybill Shepherd's sitcom Cybill (1995–1998)

film director, producer, writer and actor, of Polish Jewish, Russian Jewish, and Austrian Jewish descent As a director and producer, he is most closely associated with the horror genre, namely splatter films, having directed the films Cabin Fever (2002) and Hostel (2005).

TV actor (CSI), of part Polish descent. Other endeavors of the personality include acting in The Net, Big Time, Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane, Three sisters, The Division, The Rules of Attraction, Shadow of Fear, etc. in minor roles. He has also made an appearance in Marilyn Manson's music video named (s)AINT.

Actress, father is of partial Polish descent.Jane Seymour first came into the spotlight after portraying Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973). She is best known for her role as Dr. Michaela Quinn in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, a medical drama set in the Wild West which earned her two Emmy nominations and four Golden Globe nominations.Seymour is the founder of the Open Hearts Foundation as well as an author, having written several children's books and self-help books. Under the Jane Seymour Designs label, she has also created jewelry, scarves, furniture, rugs, handbags, paintings, and sculptures.

Born to Polish parents. Musical theatre and television actress best known for her release Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (M*A*S*H) for which she won two Emmy Awards.

Actor; of Polish Jewish/Hungarian Jewish (paternal) and Slovak Catholic (maternal) descent.Paul Newman came to be known as one of the finest actors of his time with films like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'The Hustler.' He also started the Newman's Own food company, which donates all profits to charity