Kowalski attended MIT in order to study mathematics, but turned to architecture, and then to sculpture.
Piotr Kowalski was born 2 March 1927 in Lwów, Second Polish Republic (now Lviv, Ukraine).
He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1952, receiving a Bachelors in Architecture, and maintained relations with MIT throughout his life.
In 1985, he became president of the Ars Technica Association connected to the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie uniting philosophers, artists, scientists such as Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond, Claude Faure, Jean-Max Albert, Sara Holt, Piero Gilardi, Jean-Claude Mocik, reflecting on the relationship between art and new technologies.
[2] He was named professor at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1987.