Thomas V. Czarnowski of Sheffield

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 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.

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