Biography
Architect, urban visionary, and founder of Town Planning Design & Architecture.
Boguslaw Witkowski is a master engineer architect and the founder of Town Planning Design & Architecture, established in Belgium in 1989. Across more than three decades, his work has moved between architecture, urban strategy, public buildings, housing, and competition-driven propositions developed throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Earlier international experience included projects connected to Place des Martyrs, the Pahlavi National Library, Auderghem and Bernalmont sustainable housing studies, the Islamic Cultural Centre in Madrid, Tiergartenviertel Berlin, The Peak in Hong Kong, Barcelona Airport, the SWIFT headquarters in La Hulpe, Baghdad University's athletic college, the Gabon University campus, and modular housing in High Silesia. Those formative years established a practice joining technical rigor with cultural and urban range.
Through TPD&A, he developed an architectural language shaped by landscape, environmental intelligence, and East-West cultural dialogue. That position continues through projects such as Osaka Suspended Gardens, Toronto Coptic Village, Busan Gwangbok Street, Brussels Hills on the Beach, and the New Silk Road Museum Park, while doctoral research on the evolution of Chinese town form continues to deepen a practice attentive to place, sustainability, and long-range urban thought.
Curriculum
Education
Professional Bodies
Languages
Professional Experience
1989-present
Independent architectural and urban practice in Belgium, developing housing, public buildings, cultural proposals, ecological urban strategies, competition work, and expert records across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
2000-2002
Coordination and synthesis of construction documents for Berlaymont 2000 in Brussels.
1986-1989
Design work for SWIFT headquarters in Brussels-La Hulpe, Barcelona Airport, Hotel Miramar in Barcelona, and projects in Paris and Poissy.
1983-1986
Work with TEKHNE, Hu Shi Thung, Vefik Soyeren, and ARC on hospitals, banking agencies, diplomatic buildings, cultural commissions, and government work in Africa and Europe.
1982-1983
Site direction for the Iraqi National University of Baghdad Athletic College, designed by TAC/USA.
1973-1982
Architectural work in Belgium and abroad with Marcel Lambrichs, Alo Heinemann, Gillain & Nicodème, HID, Polak & Stapels, and SRZ Architects, including university, cultural, housing, office, diplomatic, and infrastructure programs.
1970-1973
Early work in Katowice, Glogow, Bytom, and High Silesia, including urban service buildings, housing systems, and site engineering for the FIAT Poland factory complex.
Selected Publications
1972
Coal Mine Project of the Future
Architektura, Polish Union of Architects SARP
1978
La Main Ouverte - Pahlavi National Library
NEUF
1985
CHINE: Mode d'emploi à bâtir
NEUF, with Philippe Paquet
1990
La maison Tsuga - une sagesse millénaire
NEUF
1993
Dom Tsuga
Dom & Wnętrze
2003
St Mark's Canadian Orthodox Coptic Village
Concept
2006
Octobre 2075... La démocratie est généralisée sur la planète
Idées Bleues
2007
Architectures - 10 Projets durables en Brabant Wallon
Carnet de Route
Lectures and Conferences
2005
From Osaka Suspended Gardens to Kakolanmaki
SB05 Tokyo
2007-2009
Modernity in Architecture
Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice
2016
City's Evolution - Vernacular or Sustainable?
iiSBE, Prague, with Olaf Witkowski
2017
Brussels, Sustainable City? Urban Life under Climate Change
International conference, Brussels
2020
Changing Our Cities: Why, What and How?
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2024
Saigon Garden City
Conversation with Prof. Do Xuan Son, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
