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Soltan, Jerzy
(b Prezma, Livonia, Latvia, 1913). Polish architect, urban planner and industrial designer. While still a student, he began his career auspiciously by winning a state-sponsored competition for the Social Security Centre in Vilna (now Vilnius; erected 1937–9). His practice and education were interrupted when, as a soldier in 1939, he was imprisoned by the Nazis. Following his emancipation in 1945, he moved to Paris to the studio of Le Corbusier. Between 1945 and 1949 Soltan worked on several projects, including the Unité d’Habitation, Marseille, and the development of the ‘Modulor’, the proportioning system that Le Corbusier used frequently in his later work. He received his diploma from the Polytechnic in Warsaw in 1948.
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