Andrej Pogorzelski
Born on 28 November 1929 in Warsaw (Poland). Andrej's father was taken prisoner at the start of the war, when the Soviet army invaded Poland. He never saw him again. A year later, one of his grandmothers, of French origin, obtained authorisation to move to Lebanon. The family settled in Beirut and then moved to Chambéry in France, where his mother taught Polish. Andrej joined the Villard-de-Lans high school in 1945, and then the Paris high school in 1946. He passed his baccalaureate in 1947 and went on to study architecture in Grenoble, London and Paris, during which time he married. After graduating, he opened his own practice in Vienne (Isère). Andrej was still with us in September 2023.
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