Wiktor Zin

Wiktor Zin (14 September 1925 in Hrubieszów – 17 May 2007 in Rzeszów) - Polish architect, graphic artist, professor, architectural preservationist, cultural activist, and promoter of Polish history and culture.

Zin finished architectural studies at Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza in Kraków. In 1952 he received his doctorate, with further advancement in his professorial degrees in 1959, 1967, and 1979.

He first worked as a teacher's assistant and adjunct at Kraków's Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza (through 1949), and later at the Cracow University of Technology as an adjunct (1954–1959), a docent (1959–1967), and finally as a full-fledged professor, 1967 onwards. Between the years of 1962-1967 he was the dean of the Faculty of Architecture there. From 1962 he headed The Institute of Architectural History and Landmark Conservation.

Alongside his academic work he was involved in events benefitting the city as well as architecture and landmark conservation all over Poland. He was the general architect of Kraków between (1958–64), the director of Studies on the Old City Complex (1960–1975), the head of the Cracovian Conservation Commission (1970–1978), as well as the president and vice-president of the Admirers of the History and Landmarks of Kraków.

In the years 1977-1981 he was the General Landmark Conservator as a part of the Ministry of Culture and Art in the rank of vice-minister. Between 1978-1983 he was the head of the interministerial Commission on the Conservation of Landmark Municipal Complexes. During the 1980s he was a lecturer at the University of Zagreb. A member of the Board of Polish Architects, the Society for the Protection of Landmarks in Poland he was the chairman of its board between 1975–1983. Professor Zin was also a member of the Mexican Academy of Architecture. On 28 January 1998 the Cracow University of Technology awarded him an honorary doctorate.

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