Our Masters

Professor Jacek Kościuk

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Professor Jacek Kościuk

A tall gure stands in front of a laser scanner. A hat,

glasses, and a gently smoldering cigarette. It is Professor

Jacek Kościuk working on a new research material. The

location? It could be a medieval castle in Poland, the Tem-

ple of Hatshepsut or a late antique Christian pilgrimage

centre in Abû Mînâ, both in Egypt, as well as Machu Pic-

chu in Peru or a Bolivian archaeological site of Fuerte de

Samaipata, and many others.

Professor Jacek Kościuk is characterized by the sen-

sitivity of a humanist and the precise mind of an engi-

neer. He is a person with exceptionally broad interests,

ranging from the general issues, such as the theory of de-

sign, through the architecture of Wrocław and Lower Sile-

sia, ancient and early Middle Ages Mediterranean, and

pre-Columbian South America constructions to computer

modelling and advanced 3D scanning methods in various

elds of applications.

On the occasion of his retirement, we present the pro-

le and remarkable achievements of our dear Master and

Friend (Fig. 1).

Jacek Kościuk was born in 3.10.1951 in Mielec.

He started his studies at the Faculty of Architecture

of Wrocław University of Science and Technology in

1969 and remained strongly connected to our university

throughout most of his academic and teaching career.

From the beginning of his studies, Jacek Kościuk

was deeply interested in the history of architecture and

the interactions between monuments and new buildings.

During his studies, he was engaged enthusiastically in

student life (Fig. 2). Ha also keenly participated in the

activities of the Institute of History of Architecture, Art,

and Technology, both in the eld (e.g., research on the

Castle in Iłża) and in conservation projects, as well as

in a students’ scientic movement. Having obtained his

diploma in 1974, with a thesis Residential and Industri-

al Units supervised by Professor Bolesław Szmidt from

the Department of Industrial Buildings Design, he started

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Fig. 1. Jacek Kościuk (drawing by E. Niemczyk)

Il. 1. Jacek Kościuk (rys. E. Niemczyk)

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Jadwiga Sławińska was born on June 20, 1927 in Łódź.

During the German occupation of Poland, as only few of her

co-workers knew, she was in the Warsaw Ghetto, from where

she managed to escape just before the final liquidation. After

the war, she continued her education while working profes-

sionally. She graduated from secondary school in 1948 in

Łódź. This extremely dramatic period is described by Professor

Alina Drapella-Hermansdorfer, i.e. One day, her mother

forced her to escape from the Łódź Ghetto. The daughter of

Estera and Ruwin Linde was a teenager when she came to

Pomerania to work in the field after a few months of wander-

ing through forests and more or less successful attempts to join

the resistance movement. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended

in defeat and Jadwiga with a new identity somehow miracu-

lously was assigned to help on the farm. She was alone in an

alien place, cut off from contacts and messages from the out-

side. The arrival of the front meant a chance for her to return

home. Without waiting for the end of the war, she took a job as

a secretary in Gdańsk in the structures of the rebuilding state.

In the ones as they were at that time. As a German-speaking

person, she was sent to the information section for a few

months, which was later reminded in relation to her by the

Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), not taking into

account the context or the fact that she left for Łódź using the

first possible opportunity. How ever, no one waited for her in

the surviving quarters of the former Litzmannstadt-Ghetto.

Jadwiga graduated from secondary school and went to

Wrocław as if it were the Pro mised Land. She was 21 years old

with an unbearable baggage of memories. After moving to

Wrocław, she start ed studying at the Faculty of Architecture of

the Wro cław University of Technology. She graduated in

1955, ob tain ing a master’s degree in civil engineering. Already

at that time she was interested in the theory and aesthetics of

Jadwiga Sławińska urodziła się 20 czerwca 1927 r.

w Łodzi. W czasie okupacji, o czym wiedzieli tylko nie-

liczni z jej współpracowników, przebywała w getcie war-

szawskim, skąd udało się jej uciec tuż przed ostateczną

likwidacją. Po wojnie kontynuowała naukę, jednocześnie

pracując zawodowo. Szkołę średnią skończyła w 1948 r.

w Łodzi. O tym niezwykle dramatycznym okresie pisze

prof. Alina Drapella-Hermansdorfer: Kiedyś matka zmu-

siła ją do ucieczki z łódzkiego getta. Córka Estery i Ruwina

Linde miała kilkanaście lat, gdy trafiła na Pomorze do

pra cy w polu, po paromiesięcznej tułaczce po lasach i mniej

lub bardziej udanych próbach włączenia się do ruchu

oporu. Powstanie w getcie warszawskim zakończyło się po -

rażką

, a Jadwiga z nową tożsamością jakimś cu dem zo -

stała przydzielona do pomocy w gospodarstwie rolnym.

Znalazła się sama w obcym żywiole, odcięta od kontaktów

i wiadomości z zewnątrz. Nadejście frontu oznaczało dla

niej szansę na powrót do domu. Nie czekając na koniec

woj ny, podjęła w Gdańsku pracę sekretarki w strukturach

od budowującego się państwa. Takich, jakie wówczas

były. Jako osoba znająca niemiecki trafiła na parę miesię-

cy do sekcji informacji, co jej później miał wypomnieć

IPN, nie patrząc na kontekst ani na to, że z pierwszą

nadarzającą się okazją wyjechała do Łodzi. W ocalałych

kwartałach dawnego Litzmannstadt-Getto nikt jednak na

nią nie czekał. Jadwiga skończyła szkołę średnią i wyru-

szyła do Wrocławia, niczym do Ziemi Obiecanej. Miała

21 lat i bagaż wspomnień nie do udźwignięcia. Po prze-

niesieniu się do Wrocławia rozpoczęła studia na Wydziale

Architektury Politechniki Wro cław skiej. Ukoń czyła je

w 1955 r., uzyskując tytuł magistra inżyniera architekta.

Już w tym okresie interesowała się teorią i es tetyką archi-

tektury uprawianą jako dział teorii kultury. By pogłębić te

Nasi Mistrzowie/Our Masters

Docent Jadwiga Sławińska –

Honorowa Profesor Politechniki Wrocławskiej

Docent Jadwiga Sławińska –

Honorary Professor of Wrocław University of Technology

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92 Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornickar

Ph.D. studies under the supervision of Professor Edmund

Małachowicz, the director of the Institute of the History

of Architecture, Art, and Technology.

During his doctoral studies, Jacek Kościuk joined the

team focused on the conservation of architectural monu-

ments. After successfully nishing the doctoral thesis The

integration of contemporary architecture in historical en-

sembles on October 18, 1978, he was employed as an As-

sistant Professor in the Institute (now Department) of the

History of Architecture, Art, and Technology with which

he is still associated until now. Initially his research inter-

ests were focused on the medieval architecture in Lower

Silesia, in collaboration with the Provincial Archaeologi-

cal and Conservation Centre in Wrocław, and resulted in

the studies of the rotunda of St. Gotthard in Strzelin, the

castle in Świdnica, or Mikołajska Gate in Wrocław.

At this early stage of his scientic career, Jacek Ko-

ściuk became interested in non-invasive techniques of

archaeological prospection. In collaboration with the In-

stitute of Building of Wrocław University of Science and

Technology he applied the thermovision method to detect

the internal structures of walls. This approach was consid-

ered a pioneering research technique at that time. Inno-

vative, especially non-invasive methods of measurement,

testing and documentation in architecture and archaeolo-

gy remains one of the central interests of Jacek Kościuk

throughout his entire academic work.

The year 1981 brought a signicant change to Jacek

Kościuk’s scientic career when he went to Cairo on

a scholarship from the Egyptian Government. Due to the

martial law in Poland he remained in Egypt until 1984,

studying the local architecture of Late Antiquity and the

early Middle Ages. These studies marked the beginning

of Jacek Kościuk’s long and fruitful collaboration with

the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo (DAIK),

which continues to this day. The foundation of this part-

nership was laid through research in Abû Mînâ, one of

the largest pilgrimage centres of early Christianity, and

a site inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Jacek Kościuk became the architect of the archaeologi-

cal mission. Since 1985 he has been in charge of the re-

search on the early medieval phase of Abû Mînâ from the

second half of the 7

century and subsequent centuries.

His research in this area, continued for over twenty eld

seasons, and resulted in numerous participations in inter-

national conferences and lectures as well as publications,

including a monograph Early Medieval settlement at Abû

Mînâ from 2009 that became the basis for his habilitation

in January 27, 2010 by the decision of the Scientic Coun-

cil of the Faculty of Architecture at Wrocław University of

Science and Technology. The continuation of architectural

research on Abû Mînâ was presented in numerous reports,

articles, and another monograph Plac Targowy wczes-

nośredniowiecznej osady w Abû Mînâ published in 2019.

The ongoing research on the architecture of Abû Mînâ by

Jacek Kościuk was presented in numerous reports, arti-

cles, and another monograph published in 2019.

Jacek Kościuk’s collaboration with DAIK extended far

beyond Abû Mînâ. In subsequent years, he participated

in numerous eld missions in Egypt, including: the upper

temple of the Snofru pyramid in Dashur (1982 and 1983,

led by Professor Rainer Stadelmann); the Roman settle-

ment within the temple complex in Luxor (1983, led by

Dr. Peter Grossmann); the temple of Seti I in Gurna (1983

and 1984, led by Professor Rainer Stadelmann); the early

dynastic necropolis of Umm el-Qa’ab (1983 and 1984, led

by Professor Gunter Dreyer); the necropolis of El Sala-

muni (1984, led by Dr. Klaus Kuhlmann); and the early

dynastic settlement layers on Elephantine (1984, led by

Professor Werner Kaiser and Professor Gunter Dreyer).

During these studies, Jacek Kościuk successfully contin-

ued his pioneering work with non-invasive measurement

methods, including the usage of the electro-resistance

equipment for the ground penetration, constructed accord-

ing to his guidelines at Wrocław University of Science

and Technology.

He supplemented his further studies of Abû Mînâ with

literary research conducted in 1992 in Berlin under the

guidance of Professor Wolfram Hoepfner. During this

six-month scholarship from the German Academy of

Sciences and Literature he also participated in eld re-

searches on the settlement of Thira Archai in Santorini

and on two sea nymph sanctuaries from the archaic peri-

Fig. 2. Jacek Kościuk, a first-year Architecture student, during the first

student exchange between Wrocław University of Science

and Technology and a university in Volgograd at the Kumylga

collective farm, 1970 (photo by A. Sokalski)

Il. 2. Jacek Kościuk, student I roku architektury podczas pierwszej

wymiany studenckiej Politechniki Wrocławskiej z uczelnią

z Wołgogradu w kołchozie Kumylga, 1970 (fot. A. Sokalski)

Professor Jacek Kościuk 93

od in Rhodes. The next research expedition, this time to

Deir-Salib in Syria in 1993, resulted from collaboration

with Professor Hans-Georg Severin.

In the subsequent years, he continued his research on

residential architecture in collaboration with Professor

Wolfram Hoepfner. Thanks to this partnership recon-

structions of ancient Antioch architecture, residential

homes in Priene and Kolophon, architectural orders of

the Leonidaion in Olympia, and the palace in Vergina

were created, using CAD software, a pioneering method

in archaeology at the time.

The detailed analyses of two famous ancient edices:

the Pergamon Altar and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

brought the most spectacular results of the cooperation

between Professor Wolfram Hoepfner and Jacek Kościuk

(Fig. 3). Their studies took into account the contemporary

state of research and all known at the time fragments of

these structures, scattered around the world. Based on me-

ticulous studies, Jacek Kościuk created virtual reconstruc-

tions followed by models of the buildings made from arti-

cial marble (Corian). These models were exhibited, among

others, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,

and currently they can be seen in the Berlin museums.

The Ptolemaic Temple of Repit in Athribis is another

archaeological site in Egypt where Jacek Kościuk worked,

this time invited by of Professor Christian Leiz. Starting

from 2001 he participated in the preparation and then the

activities of the German-Egyptian research mission -

nanced by the DAAD grant. Being the chief architect and

the main conservator of the mission he was responsible

for preparing the documentation of the temple’s architec-

tural relics and their analyses followed by the temple’s

theoretical reconstruction. The site had to be tidied up

including dismantling of the ruined parts of the temple

which was accomplished by Jacek Kościuk using among

others pneumatic cushions, his another innovative idea in

Egypt. The works were presented in a series of articles

and a monograph of the Athribis Temple.

Another turning point in Jacek Kościuk’s career oc-

curred in 2006 when, he got the grant of the Sectoral

Operational Program: Improvement of the Competitive-

ness of Industry WKP1/1.4.2/2/2005/87/168/464, and

opened the Laboratory of Scanning 3D and Modelling

(LabScan3D) at the Institute of the History of Architec-

ture, Art and Technology – one of the rst laboratories of

the kind in Poland and the rst one at a university. The

laboratory crowned Jacek Kościuk’s long-standing inter-

ests in various methods of digital documentation and 3D

modelling. Since the opening of the Laboratory, he and

his team participated in numerous projects from various

research elds. One of the most interesting is the docu-

mentation work on the Upper Terrace of the Temple of

Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari, another monument on the

UNESCO list, carried out as a part of the works of the

Polish Archaeological and Conservation Expedition of

the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of War-

saw University (Fig. 4).

Another signicant chapter in Jacek Kościuk’s sci-

entic work began in 2011 when he received an invita-

tion to participate in the Polish studies in the South and

Central America from Professor Mariusz Ziółkowski, the

director of the Andean Research Centre of Warsaw Uni-

versity. The collaboration has continued to this day and

yielded excellent scientic results within more than 10

research projects.

The participation in the Qorikancha A comprehensive

historical and architectural study of the former Sun Tem-

ple in the capital of the Inca state – Cusco grant (2281/B/

Fig. 3. Jacek Kościuk next to the

model of the Mausoleum at

Halicarnassus (photo by

W. Hoepfner)

Il. 3. Jacek Kościuk obok modelu

Mauzoleum w Halikarnasie

(fot. W. Hoepfner)

94 Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornickar

T02/2011/40) was the rst one. Thanks to Jacek Kościuk’s

precise three-dimensional documentation of the temple,

previous assumptions regarding its astro-orientation in

space were veried.

The 3D laser scanning documentation of the Machu

Picchu site, also listed on the UNESCO World Herit-

age List, was another project of exceptional signicance

conducted by Jacek Kościuk and his team from the Lab-

Scan3D (Figs 5–6). The project involved also specialists

from Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cus-

co trained in 3D scanning by Jacek Kościuk.

From 2013 onward, Jacek Kościuk, his PhD students,

and LabScan3D sta began cooperating with another team

of Polish researchers working in Peru led by Dr Patryc-

ja Giersz and Dr Miłosz Giersz from the Department of

Archaeology of the Americas of Warsaw University. His

participation in the Architectural research and documenta-

tion of the Wari culture mausoleum in Castillo de Huarmey

project (Fig. 7), assessed as one of the most important ar-

chaeological discoveries of 2013 by the Archaeological

Institute of America, consisted in preparing documenta-

tion with structural light scanning of particularly valuable

nds, e.g., a unique ceremonial qero cup or the skull of

Wari queen which then were printed in 3D technology in

Poland. During next seasons Jacek Kościuk completed the

architectural documentation of the whole archaeological

site including its stratication using the 3D laser scanning

method as well as the digital short-range photogrammetry.

In the same year, Jacek Kościuk also initiated partner-

ship with the Archaeological Museum in Arequipa. In the

primary stage of the work, he created 3D models of over

twenty ceremonial qero cups, which now paradoxically

represent the only trace of these artefacts as they were

stolen from the museum’s collection. The second stage

involved participation in another research project led by

of Professor Mariusz Ziółkowski: The study of the Inca

pilgrimage centre Maucallacta, and The study of the Inca

sanctuary in the region of Coropuna volcano.

The successful verication of the earlier assumptions

regarding the orientation and function of the Qorikan-

cha as an astronomical observatory led to similar studies

of other Inca structures. These investigations were con-

ducted by Jacek Kościuk in collaboration with Professor

Ziółkowski in the Inca ceremonial sanctuary Templo de

la Luna in the Sacsayhuamán area, the Intimachay, an as-

tronomical observatory of Machu Picchu, or el Mirador

de Inkaraqay. Using the 3D laser scanning, digital short-

range photogrammetry, architectural analyses, chronolog-

ical stratication and astronomical orientation, the team

proved for the rst time, that the Incas were capable of

conducting advanced astrological observations, including

the December solstice, the June solstice, as well as the

so-called lunar standstill or the Pleiades’ heliacal rising.

These discoveries are considered to be ones of the most

important in the eld of Inca’s cosmology.

The outstanding achievements of Jacek Kościuk and his

team in the eld of pre-Columbian architectural research

have resulted in invitations to participate in subsequent re-

search projects directed by scientists from the Centre of

Andean Research of Warsaw University in Cuzco: Satel-

lite sites in the Machu Picchu neighbourhood: Inkaraqay,

Chachabamba and high-mountain lakes near Nevado Sal-

cantay (Peru), led by Professor Mariusz Ziółkowski (grant

NCN Opus 10, UMO-2015/19/B/HS3/03557); Armakuna:

ritual functions of Inca’s “baths” on the example of the

ceremonial site Chachabamba (Historical Sanctuary of

Machu Picchu, Peru) directed by Dominika Sieczkowska

(grant NCN Preludium 10, UMO-2015/19/N/HS3/03626)

and Archaeological musical instruments in Polish mu-

seum collections led by Professor Anna Gruszczyńs-

ka-Ziółkowska (grant nanced by the Ministry of Science

and Higher Education as part of the National Program for

the Development of Humanities, 11H 13038282).

His next two projects extended beyond South America.

Jacek Kościuk documented and investigated traces of hu-

man activity preserved in lava cave on Easter Island and

Fig. 4. Jacek Kościuk in front on the Sanctuarium of the Hatshepsut

Temple in Deir el-Bahari, Western Thebes, Egypt, 2010

(photo by Wo. Wojciechowski)

Il 4. Jacek Kościuk przed Sanktuarium Świątyni Hatszepsut w Deir

el-Bahari, Teby Zachodnie, Egipt, 2010 (fot. W. Wojciechowski)

Fig. 5. Jacek Kościuk working in Machu Picchu, El Mirador, 2013

(photo by M. Ziółkowski)

Il. 5. Jacek Kościuk w Machu Picchu, El Mirador, 2013

(fot. M. Ziółkowski)

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in the archaeological park of the Maya civilization in El

Salvador (Documentation of Joya de Cerén in El Salva-

dor), another site from the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The architectural research and comprehensive doc-

umentation of the Samaipata site (Fuerte de Samaipata/

Bolivia) under the World Heritage List project led by Jacek

Kościuk (grant NCN Opus 014/15/B/HS2/01108), repre-

sents the culmination of his research in South America. The

precise documentation of the Samaipata archaeological

site with famous and very fragile petroglyphs is the major

aim of the project, including the recording of the present

condition of the petroglyphs. This is particularly crucial

since they are prone to rapid erosion. In the light of the

ongoing destruction of these historical artifacts, the doc-

umentation prepared by Jacek Kościuk and his co-work-

ers is invaluable, being not only their record allowing to

conduct further research, e.g. establishing their chronolo-

gy, but also constituting a base for the necessary conserva-

tion interventions. It is also worth emphasizing how broad

the spectrum of specialists from various elds and inter-

national institutions was whom Jacek Kościuk invited to

collaborate within the Samaipata project. Scientists from

the Faculty of Architecture of Wrocław University of Sci-

ence and Technology, Warsaw University, Centro Italiano

di Studi e Ricerche Precolombiane in Nasca, the Universi-

ty of Wrocław, Wrocław University of Environmental and

Life Sciences, Cracow University of Technology and the

Ministry of Culture of Bolivia were involved in rescuing,

documenting and investigating the Samaipata site.

Simultaneously with the research projects conducted

in South America, Jacek Kościuk was involved in sever-

al studies carried out in Poland at Wrocław University of

Science and Technology. In 2015 he took part in Professor

Małgorzata Chorowska’s grant The beginnings of castles

in Lower Silesia in the light of research into the chronol-

ogy of the construction workshop (brick, stone, mortar)

(NCN grant: 2012/05/B/HS3/03704). He also participat-

ed in a scientic consortium consisting of the Faculty of

Architecture of Wrocław University of Science and Tech-

nology and the Jordahl & Pfeifer Company working on

System of modiable prefabricated multi-level car park

facilities – UniParking in bi-Concrete

technology pro-

ject nanced by the National Centre for Research and

Development and European Regional Development Fund.

The LabScan3D sta led by Jacek Kościuk also partici-

pated in research projects of Prof. Jerzy Kaleta from the

Department of Mechanics and Materials Engineering,

Wrocław University of Science and Technology: rstly

Enhanced Design Requirements and Testing Procedures

for Composite Cylinders for the Safe Storage of Hydro-

gen (HYCOMP) and secondly Research of the composite

pontoon bridge.

The partnership between the LabScan3D, the Police

School in Piła and the Department of Forensic Medicine

at the Medical Academy in Wrocław brought about one

of the most interesting and innovative applications of

the modern methods and techniques of documentation

in the eld of forensic science. The team led by Jacek

Kościuk took part in research projects and prosecution

proceedings which were presented at conferences and

in publications. Thanks to this partnership, Laboratory

of 3D Expertise dedicated to virtual reconstruction and

examination of crime scenes, the rst laboratory of that

kind in Poland and the second in Europe was established

Fig. 6. Jacek Kościuk next to a Laser scanner working in Machu Picchu, 2016 (photo by A. Kubicka-Sowińska)

Il. 6. Jacek Kościuk przy skanerze laserowym podczas prac w Machu Picchu, 2016 (fot. A. Kubicka-Sowińska)

96 Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornickar

at the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of

Medical Sciences in Wrocław. Jacek Kościuk serves as

a consultant there, and the LabSkan3D was approved by

the Lower Silesian Department of the National Public

Prosecutor’s Oce in Wrocław (File No. PK I Wz. Ds.

29.2016) as a team of experts in, among other things, pro-

cedural experiment documentation.

The impressive scientic career of Jacek Kościuk is

reected in his numerous publications and participation

in many conferences. He published about 120 scientif-

ic papers including 2 monographs, a lot of articles and

chapters in monographs, mostly in English. He was also

the editor of 2 monographs. His publications have been

and continue to be widely cited.

Jacek Kościuk took part in over 50 scientic confer-

ences, most of them of international importance. Many

times he chaired the conference sessions. In at least 8 con-

ferences he was a member of the scientic and organizing

committees and once the chairman of such a committee.

In 2008 he became an external expert of the National

Foresight Program Poland 2020. Since 2018 he has been

a member of the Scientic committee of the journal Teka

Komisji Architektury, Urbanistyki i Studiów Krajobra-

zowych, PAN Lublin.

Long and successful scientic career of Jacek Kości-

uk resulted in his being awarded the title of Professor

in 2020. Many times he received Rector’s Award of the

Wrocław University of Science and Technology as well as

Honorary Badge of Merit for Polish Culture awarded by

the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Re-

public of Poland (2011), Docendo Discimus special Rec-

tor’s award for special achievements in teaching (2018)

and Medal of the National Education Commission (2018).

Working in the Institute of History of Architecture, Art

and Technology, Jacek Kościuk performed many promi-

nent functions at the Faculty of Architecture of Wrocław

University of Science and Technology: director (2005–

2014) and deputy director (1991–1993, 2014–2021) of the

Institute; founder and director of the Laboratory of Scan-

ning 3D and Modeling (LabScan3D, 2007–2021) and

a member of 6 Faculty Committees (Program Committee,

Hospitalization Committee, Faculty Development Plan

Committee, Research Committee, Sta Policy Commit-

tee, Doctoral Scholarship Committee). In 2022 he retired

from Wrocław University of Science and Technology and

now he holds an Associate Research Fellow position at

the Centre of Andean Studies of the University of Warsaw.

Alongside his academic career, Jacek Kościuk also

developed successfully a professional career as an architect.

In 1994, he with his wife Anna Kościuk established their

own design studio ARCHIKON s.c., where he was actively

working till 2005. He gained design experience while

working in Poland and abroad. Throughout his professional

career, he participated in 32 projects, including 17 related

to monument protection, and 3 architectural competitions

with one awarded the rst prize and one nominated for

Fig. 7. Jacek Kościuk with the members of the Castillo de Huarmey project (photo by Archives Castillo de Hurarmey project)

Il. 7. Jacek Kościuk z członkami projektu Castillo de Huarmey, 2014 (fot. Archiwa Castillo de Hurarmey project)

Professor Jacek Kościuk 97

the Proactive Engineering Award (USA) in 1996 for

the project of restoration of the White Stork Synagogue

in Wrocław and the innovative use of 3D software in

conservation design. In his professional practice, he

obtained many qualications in the eld of architecture

and design (building qualications for unlimited design

in the architectural specialty; authorizations for design

work on heritage monuments, experts’ rights of the

Association of Monument Conservators in revalorization

of architectural heritage and MicroStation Institute

Certied Instructor qualications). As an expert Jacek

Kościuk became a member of many professional and

scientic organizations: the Architecture and Urban

Planning Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences in

Wrocław; the Association of Monument Conservators,

where he was a v-President in 1994–1997 and 2010–

2014; the Polish National Committee ICOMOS; Société

d’Archéologie Copte; the Commission on Archaeology of

Mediterranean Countries of the Polish Academy of Arts

and Sciences; the MicroStation Community, where he was

a founder and president in 1998–2000, the Chamber of

Polish Architects; Koldewey Society; the City Planning

and Architecture Commission at the Mayor of the City

of Wrocław in 2003–2007; the jury of the FACADE OF

THE YEAR competition organized by BAUMIT Polska

in 2013–2019; and expert teams of NCBiR, NCN and

Norwegian Fund in 2010–2019, Inter-American Society

of Astronomy in Culture and Society for American

Archeology.

His broad scientic knowledge and professional

experience made him an outstanding lecturer and un-

derstanding and patient teacher. He started teaching

during his PhD studies at the Faculty of Architecture

of Wrocław University of Science and Technology with

a course Conservation of Monuments. He continued his

career as a lecturer teaching various classes, including

a seminar Aesthetics, design classes Conservation of

monuments, computer laboratory Introduction to CAD

systems, and practical exercises Architectural and con-

struction documentation.

With a team from the Institute (now Department) of

History of Architecture, Art and Technology Jacek Ko-

sciuk prepared and introduced a new specialization for

students of Architecture: Monuments Protection (now Ar-

chitecture and Historic Preservation). He also conducted

courses for the students of this specialisation such as In-

troduction to CAD systems, Advanced CAD methods, Ar-

chitectural and conservation documentation, Generative

Components, Laboratory of architectural and conserva-

tion documentation, computer laboratory Advanced meth-

ods of 3D documentation, design classes Conservation

design and Master’s diploma seminars.

Fig. 8. Jacek Kościuk with students from the ArcHist students movement during workshops Zamki i ich cienie in Zagórze Śląskie, 2019

(photo by A. Gryglewska)

Il. 8. Jacek Kościuk z uczestnikami koła studenckiego ArcHist podczas warsztatów Zamki i ich cienie w Zagórzu Śląskim, 2019

(fot. A. Gryglewska)

98 Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornickar

Many times he organized workshops and practices for

students and PhD students in Poland (Fig. 8) and abroad.

He was also a founder and a supervisor of student re-

search circles: DigiFabLab and FOCHUS, both at the

Faculty of Architecture of Wrocław University of Sci-

ence and Technology.

Jacek Kościuk supervised engineering diploma works

and master’s theses, overseeing over 15 of the former and

nearly 40 of the latter. Participating in numerous research

projects, he always aimed to involve his students, doctor-

al candidates, and collaborators in these studies. This re-

sulted in numerous doctoral theses that he supervised as

a promoter. As an expert he also reviewed several doctor-

al dissertations. His students were rewarded and received

grants many times. He also participated in many habilita-

tion proceedings, also as a reviewer and a chairman.

The contacts of Jacek Kościuk with foreign scientic

institutions and participating in numerous internation-

al researches resulted also in cooperation in the eld of

teaching. In Abû Mînâ he supervised a eld practise for

the students of the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical

University of Karlsruhe. This partnership continued in Po-

land in a joint scientic project organized for Polish and

German researchers and students on wooden churches of

Lower Silesia. Jacek Kościuk taught also students from

of classical archaeology the Free University of Berlin the

use of CAD techniques in archaeological documentation.

Participating in many international scientic pro-

jects and broad cooperation with researches working on

pre-Columbian architecture resulted in many invitation

of Jacek Kościuk from universities as well as other cul-

tural and scientic institutions in South America. Many

times he was asked to conduct lectures, classes and work-

shops for their students and employees which took place

at Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cus-

co, the Francisco Gavidia University in San Salvador,

El Centro Nacional De Conservación y Restauración in

Santiago De Chile and the Father Sebastian Englert An-

thropological Museum. He presented his own impressive

studies, as well as the modern methods of documenting

heritage monuments, especially the use of 3D laser scan-

ning technology, but also the ideas and achievements of

the Polish school of research and conservation of herit-

age monuments.

The legacy of Jacek Kościuk constitutes a signicant

contribution to the advancement of science in various

elds, encompassing participation in many diverse re-

search projects and numerous publications that have been

widely cited. The area of his research extends from South

America to eastern Mediterranean and from Antiquity to

modern times. It is worth noting that Professor Kościuk

continues to be active professionally with excellent re-

sults, currently focusing on the research on pre-Columbi-

an architecture in South America. We look forward to fur-

ther results of his works! The Laboratory of Scanning 3D

and Modelling (LabScan3D), the Jewel in the crown of his

work, has been working with subsequent successes to its

credit led by his protégés: Dr eng Bartłomej Ćmielewski

and Dr eng arch Anna Kubicka-Sowińska. Numerous ar-

chitects and scholars trained by Jacek Kościuk, including

the author of this article, keep working on archaeologi-

cal sites, or with monuments, using skills, methods and

knowledge provided by Jacek Kościuk. We all remember

his kindness and patience, as well as sometimes sharp

sense of humour, and we are all very grateful. Thank you,

Professor Jacek Kościuk!

Aleksandra Brzozowska-Jawornicka