<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2JuMIn_1Gv2XHvQ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2JuMIn_1Gv2XHvQ00" width="787" height="568" ></figure>Thomas V. Czarnowski was an award-winning architect who was equally at home overseeing complex projects in Shanghai as he was pruning fruit trees and building shelves in his beloved farmhouse in Sheffield.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2b6cEb_1Gv2XHvQ00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2b6cEb_1Gv2XHvQ00" width="388" height="424" ><figcaption>Thomas V. Czarnowski.</figcaption></figure>The son of Polish wartime refugees, Tom (as he was known) was born in 1943 in Vermont and grew up in Mexico, Argentina, Egypt, and Iran, acquiring, along the way, a seemingly effortless facility for—and deep love of—languages. He returned to the U.S. to finish high school and went on to attend Princeton for both his undergraduate and graduate studies (which included one year at Cambridge University) at the university’s School of Architecture. Upon completing his master’s in 1966, he spent two years at the American Academy in Rome on the prestigious Rome Prize Fellowship, where, among other things, he reconstructed the ground plan of the “greatest small painting in the world,” Piero della Francesca’s “Flagellation of Christ,” thereby helping art historian Marilyn Aronberg Lavin revolutionize the way the painting is discussed.In 1970, after teaching architecture at the University of Virginia for two years, Tom joined the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York. In 1972, he worked on the Museum of Modern Art’s major show on Italian design and, as assistant to the curator, designed the wooden skyscraper cases that critic Rose DeNeve described as creating “the illusion of a giant and grotesque Fifth Avenue of Italian design.”For the next 41 years, Tom would work as architect with a number of New York’s leading firms (among them Edward Larrabee Barnes and Associates, Gruzen Samton Architects LLP, and Foster + Partners) and was, in his words, “lucky to have been assigned important projects” in the U.S. and across the world. These included the headquarters for IBM in New York and Tarrytown, headquarters for Bausch &amp; Lomb, the International and Commercial Bank of China and Jahwa Corporation in Shanghai, both buildings of the Yale School of Management, and a new facility for the College of Human Ecology at Cornell.Throughout his life, Tom loved travelling, capturing the places he visited through his watercolour paintings and his extensive collection of maps. Earlier this year, he completed the work begun by his father Vincent on a unique collection of photographic materials documenting Greek and Roman public spaces across Europe and the Middle East. The collection, donated by Tom to the American Academy in Rome, will soon be accessible to the public through the Academy’s Digital Humanities Center.Tom was a New Yorker from the 1960s; however, he was happiest in the Berkshires, where he looked out onto Mount Everett and worked tirelessly to cultivate his garden and refurbish his 1900 farmhouse. Above all, Tom was wonderful company—a font of knowledge on everything from Roman roads and English grammar to BBC detective series, a witty raconteur, and a thoughtful friend who would prepare detailed itineraries and insider tips for anyone about to visit a country he had already explored.Tom died of heart failure in New York on October 23, 2026. He is survived by his cousins: Alice Hammond, John Rajchman, Maria Balinska, Marta Balinska, Ross Hammond, Lily Hammond, Karina Rajchman, Lucy Szczerba, Gavin Parker, Wyatt Parker, Hugo Hammond, and Tristan Parker.</div></body>

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Thomas V. Czarnowski was an award-winning architect who was equally at home overseeing complex projects in Shanghai as he was pruning fruit trees and building shelves in his beloved farmhouse in Sheffield. The son of Polish wartime refugees, Tom (as he was known) was born in 1943 in Vermont and...

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Thomas V. Czarnowski was an award-winning architect who was equally at home overseeing complex projects in Shanghai as he was pruning fruit trees and build

Thomas V. Czarnowski of Sheffield

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