Architect and cichociemni, one of the most prominent Home Army specialists in document forgery and underground organisation. After the war, a distinguished urban planner at home and abroad, associated, among others, with the urban planning work of the United Nations.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology (1939). During the Second World War, he fought in the September campaign and then made his way through Hungary to France, then to the United Kingdom. In London, he was trained as a "cichociemny" - a specialist in forging documents, and a paratrooper. Airdropped to Poland in 1942, he was active in the Home Army Studies Bureau as head of the legalisation cell. Participant in the Warsaw Uprising - staff officer in the Home Army Headquarters, decorated with the Virtuti Militari. After the war, from 1946, he returned to architecture. In the People's Republic of Poland, he worked at the Bureau for the Reconstruction of the Capital and the Warsaw Development Planning Bureau.

From 1956 to 1976, he worked as a United Nations urban planning expert - implementing planning projects in Iraq, Sudan, South Korea, Venezuela, Algeria, Tanzania, Peru and Indonesia, among others. He has authored or co-authored urban plans for a number of capitals and major cities of developing countries in the Global South, acting on behalf of international institutions.

As an urban planner for the United Nations, he contributed to the material planning heritage of Poles outside the country, leaving a lasting mark in many cities in Asia, Africa and South America.

Most important realisations and activities abroad:

• urban plans for the cities of Baghdad (Iraq), Khartoum (Sudan), Caracas (Venezuela), Algiers (Algeria), Jakarta (Indonesia)
• United Nations expert on urban planning (1956-1976).
• Member of numerous UN, UNESCO and UN Habitat advisory missions