Modernist villa from 1926-1930, the own house of the architect Tadeusz Michejda in Katowice.
Tadeusz Michejda's Villa at ulica Poniatowskiego 19 in Katowice was built in 1926-1930 as the architect's own house. It is a Modernist building in the Formist current, listed in the heritage register and included in the Katowice Modernism Trail.
Michejda settled in Katowice in 1924 after studying at the Lviv Polytechnic, and the villa was his first independent design in the city. The house was designed for two families: on the ground floor lived the architect's family, and it housed his studio and the seat of the Association of Architects in Silesia, while the two upper floors were let. In 1941, after the family's forced expulsion, the house was taken over by the Germans, and after the war it was turned into allocated flats.
The three-storey block on a rectangular plan has two-storey annexes in the corners, a balcony supported on pillars on the south and a flat roof terrace. The walls are smoothly plastered, and the windows form vertical bands. The north façade has a recess with two massive pillars, a triangular gable above the entrance and bas-reliefs depicting the architect's work. Capitals with crystal-like decoration refer to the Polish decorative art shown at the Paris exhibition of 1925. A plaque commemorating Michejda hangs on the fence.
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