born in 1946 in Luxembourg. He is one of the most in_ uential modern architects, architectural theorists and urban planners; has taught at the Royal College of Arts, Princeton University, University of Notre Dame and University of Virginia. Buildings of his design were erected among other countries in: England, Belgium, France, Portugal, Romania, United States of America and Italy. He has been awarded with: Berlin Prize for Architecture, Je_ erson Memorial Medal (1985), Chicago AIA Award (1987), Silver Medal of the Académie Française (1998), European Culture Award (1995), Driehaus Prize (2003), and Athena Medal of the Congress for the New Urbanism (2006). His works have been on display all around the globe including New York’s Museum of Modern Art (personal exhibition in 1985). (Léon Krier, _ e Architecture of Community, Gdańsk 2011).

(1854-1918), an architect and builder. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg in 1881, with the degree of a building engineer, first class. In 1883 he took the office of the builder of the University of Warsaw, and in 1888 the position of the builder of Warsaw province government. In the years of 1900-1902 he gave lectures in the history of architecture at K. Świecimski technical school. He authored numerous architectural designs in Warsaw and Poland, including the library of the University of Warsaw (with Stefan Szyller, 1894), and the building currently housing the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology (originally a gymnasium school, 1900). In 1900 he published a brochure entitled “What is the logic of architecture?”.

Architect, urbanist, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. From 1980 attached to Lublin through her work in the Ateliers for Conservation of Cultura Property and since 1990 in Lublin City Hall, mostly involved in the revitalization of the Old Town and other districts of Lublin. In the 1990s, she participated in preparing the local plans for the 19-century squalid districts and Lublin’s Local Initiative Programmme which, in 1996, won the Best Practice Award during the UNCHS HABITAT II Istanbul conference. Authored numerous publications concerning theintegrated methods of qualitative development of cities. Ewa Kipta is a founding member of the Revitalization Forum Association and from September, 2011 also its President.

Born in 1950 in Sandomierz, an architect (graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology). Together with his wife, Hanna, he runs Pawlik i Partnerzy (Pawlik & Partners) design studio. Co-author of a dozen or so unrealised designs and of several dozen realised buildings and interiors of varied character and purpose: single-family houses, residences, multi-family houses, industrial and sacred buildings, restoration of historical buildings. For 10 years he has been designing restaurants: Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and Starbucks coffee shops. He won the distinction award in the Fahrenheit Monument Design Competition (together with his son Jan and Janusz Kapusta). In the current term he holds the position of the National Professional Liability Ombudsman in the Chamber of Polish Architects. His hobbies include inventing books he never writes and paintings he rarely creates (took part in a joint exhibition in Chicago). He messes around in the kitchen and does the dishes on a regular basis.

 

Landscape architect, design lover, doctoral candidate at Department of Landscape Art at Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW). In her research she focuses on the urban furniture. As a landscape architect, she prefers to deal with the public space design.

 

Graduated from Spatial Economics at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, currently a postgraduate Project Management student at Warsaw School of Economics. Usually involved in the legal aspects of spatial economics. Her interests include social and cultural factors in spatial economics, and especially spatial values and elements of urban composition making up the spatial order, researching the relationship between space and people, as well as the quality of social space.

 

Assistant professor in Investment and Real Estate Department at the Warsaw School of Economics, manager of the project comprising training and postgraduate studies on urban regeneration: Urban Regeneration: Organization and Financing, co-financed by the European Social Fund under Sub-measure 4.1.1 HCOP. Participated in the Revitalisation of Polish Cities as a Measure to Preserve Material and Spiritual Heritage and as a Sustainable Growth Factor project and in NODUS thematic network within the URBACT programme. Lecturer in workshops and postgraduate studies on financing for urban regeneration, public-private partnership and real-estate management. Author of numerous academic publications and expert analyses on urban revitalization, financing and programming of urban renewal processes as well as managing real-estate value in revitalized areas.

Born in 1979, graduate of the Faculty of Interior Design at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts, designs interior spaces, furniture, objects and events. She is the co-author of the projects for the Tamika kids club and the museum shop in the Royal Castle. She runs a photo-project Wherever you’ve been, whatever you’ve done taking photographs of her feet while traveling. Ola Munzar-Sobolewska is the spiritual mother of the Dolce Luce_Tuning Engaged project stemming from the love for old neons and distance from high-end design. (www.dolceluce.org)

Graphic artist by profession, in her daily activities she joins the work of a fashion designer and photographer. She completed a course in artistic photography organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. To her credit, she has numerous shows of her fashion collections as well as exhibitions of her works and photographs. Ms. Sikorska’s artistic work is inspired by travels when she observes people and buildings. She runs a fashion and photo studio EMFASO where she photographs and creates minimalist clothing and jewellery.

He wrote an M.A. thesis entitled “Thermal Baths in Antałówki” under the supervision of Professor Małgorzata Handzelewicz. After that, Tomasz Turczynowicz worked for several years in the Office for Industrial Construction Design, Prochem. He moved to Bieszczady for one year where, among others, he was involved in the design of a heritage park of the Lemkos Homeland in Łopienka. In the years 1974-1978, he worked as an academic teacher at the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Warsaw in the studio of Professor Małgorzata Handzelewicz-Wacławek. In 1977 he designed the Church of God’s Mercy in Warsaw located at ul. Żytnia (co-designer: Jeremi T. Królikowski and his team). In the period from 1982 to 83, Turczynowicz designed a church situated at ul. Łazienkowska in Warsaw (co-designers: Anna Bielecka and Piotr Walkowiak) which was realised within the subsequent years. As a member of this team, he conducted a number of designs including the post office in Izabelin, a school in Słubice, a catechetical point in Radom as well as a house at ul. Bednarska in Warsaw. The abovementioned designs (both those carried out and those not always realised) were published in “Architektura” magazine. This way, the author exerted his impact on the development

 

of post-modernism in Poland. His Warsaw designs met with recognition in proof whereof in 1986 he received an award of PAW (Polish Contemporary Architecture) of the Warsaw Department of the Union of Polish Architects. In the years 1985-1986, he designed the Stations of the Cross chapels to match a series of bas-reliefs sculpted by Gustaw Zemła in Serpelice located over the Bug River (co-designer: Jeremi T. Królikowski); the design was carried out in the subsequent years. In 1988 he received the 1st prize in the competition for the enlargement of the church in Kościelec near Koło (co-designer: Jeremi T. Królikowski); the works have been in progress since 1990. In the period from 1985 to 2002, he worked at a Design Co-operative, ESPEA. In the first half of the 1990s, he was awarded with the 1st prize in the architectural competition for the design of a library in the Centre for the Blind in Laski situated near Warsaw (co-designers: Anna Bielecka and Piotr Walkowiak; completed). Moreover, Tomasz Turczynowicz designed multiple residential buildings, among others, the complex of buildings located at ul. Ptasia in Warsaw (co-designers: Anna Bielecka, Henryk Dąbrowski, Piotr Walkowiak). Architectural graphics by Tomasz Turczynowicz were shown at various exhibitions. His own exhibition was organised in 2006 in the headquarters of the Union of Polish Architects in Warsaw by the Critique Circle of the Warsaw Department of the Union of Polish Architects as well as by the Academy of Landscape Architecture. His graphics are exhibited in the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław as well as in many private collections. At present, he co-operates with the Department of Landscape Art of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences and conducts classes on urban planning graphics, designing principles as well as on the design of urban development and architectural designing at the Postgraduate Studies in Garden Design with the Family House.

 

Architect, designer and artist. After receiving the diploma in architecture at the Poznan University of Technology in 1986, he also studied the interior design and graphic design at the Academy of Arts in Poznań. He worked in the architecture studio of Jerzy Gurawski in the office of MIASTO-PROJEKT Poznań (CITY-PROJECT Poznań) and co-worked with Jerzy Gurawski on stage design for the Wroclaw Second Studio theatre of Zbigniew Cynkutis. He worked in the AMS advertising agency in Poznań as a chief graphic designer (he designed the first billboards in Poland). From 1990 to 1993 he co-operated with the Abelardo Gonzalez Arkitektbyrå AB studio in Malmö, Sweden.

In the years of 1991-1999 he was lecturing and teaching architectural design at the Institute of Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Poznan University of Technology. In 1994 he founded his own design studio that combines architectural, industrial and graphic design. Since 1991 he has been lecturing and teaching at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment as well as at the Ingvar Kamprad Design Centre at the Lund University, Sweden. At the same university, in 2007 he received the title of the Master of Philosophy for his thesis ”The role of gesture in Frank O. Gehry’s architecture.”

He lectured and had classes as a visiting professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation in Copenhagen, Denmark; at the Faculty of Culture and Society (School of Arts and Communication), Malmö University, Sweden; and at the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, Great Britain. In 2008 he received the position of Ralph Hawkins Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

 His research interest on innovative means and modes of contemporary architectural design processes intertwines with teaching architectural studio. His MPhil thesis “The role of gesture in Frank O. Gehry’s architecture” examines Gehry’s specific design actions putting them in the context of Modernist and contemporary art, as well as in the context of language and paralinguistic phenomenon of gesture.

He published in Poland, Netherlands and Sweden; he exhibited in Poland, Denmark and Sweden. His projects were published in Poland, Denmark and Croatia. He is a member of CEPHAD - Centre for Philosophy and Design, Denmark.

fot./ photo by Piotr Życieński

Graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW (2010) and of the Institute of Applied Linguistics (ILS) at the University of Warsaw (2007). Together with her husband, she runs a studio of architecture and landscape architecture in Kielce.

 

1956. A photographer, sometimes a writer. Archivist of memory. Practitioner of latent but not covert photography. Takes mostly 35-mm analogue and digital photos in black and white, and other colors. Erstwhile a student of chemistry and architecture. In the 1980s actively involved in the underground printing house CDN (up to its closing). Affiliated with Arche from its first issue. Worked with various publishers; values highest those architectural, catholic and the ones connected with the history of Poland. Employee of The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation.

 

Landscape architect, a PhD candidate at Dept of Landscape Art, Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She leads design studio and works on pocket parks.

 

Zeev Baran was born in 1935 in Vilnius (Poland before WWII, now Lithuania). During the war, his father, Elias, served in the Polish resistance Home Army (AK); he died a hero fighting in the Vilnius Land in 1943and was posthumously honoured with the Officer’s Cross. Other members of the family survived thanks to the Righteous Among the Nations – Helena and Bronisław Krzyżanowski. After the war, in 1948 Zeev Baran, with his mother and brother, immigrated to Israel. There, after finishing his school in Tel Aviv and in a kibbutz in 1953 was mobilized into the army. After 35 years of service, regular and in the reserves, he was demobilized, with a rank of a Major of IDF. During the years 1958-63, he studied at the Haifa Institute of Technology (“Technion”) and graduated in Architecture and Town Planning. During the years 1964-67 he continued his postgraduate studies and practice in Paris, at the atelier and office of an architect, Georges Candilis. Next, after 3 years of professional work in Israel, in 1970 he established his own office in Jerusalem, which employs a multiethnic team. His office specializes, among others, in planning projects for the countries of the 3rd world (www.zeevbaran.com).

 

Parallel to his own practice, Zeev Baran took upon himself an educational activity. During his numerous travels he made connections to many academic centers (including most of architecture faculties in Poland), resulting in multiple cooperative projects and lectures. In 1999 Zeev Baran was nominated as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Jerusalem. Consul Baran took upon himself very intensive action of promoting Poland in Israel and in the world. He visits Poland very often and stays there for about one fifth of the year. In the Consulate and in his office, over 40 young people from Poland and from other countries made their apprenticeship (consul.zeevbaran.com). Zeev Baran is facing every new challenge concerning the dialogue and cooperation between the people of Poland and Israel. Following the initiative of the President of the Republic of Poland, Mr. Bronisław Komorowski, he was involved in Poland and abroad in a series of lectures and debates on the subject of “Historical Coexistence of Jews and Poles and the Challenge of Reconciliation”.

 Zeev Baran was honored with a special Diploma by the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (2004) and with the “Knights Cross” by the President of the Republic of Poland (2007). 

Translator of English, Americanist, graduate of American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw and of post-graduate studies in Editorship and Publishing at Warszawska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna im. Bolesława Prusa and Biblioteka Analiz. Together with her husband, she has created EnglishT.eu where they work on translating and teaching English. She is fascinated with American culture and literature, especially the literature of women, feminists as well as the Bohemian style of the 1920s and ‘30s. She spends her free time practicing the arcana of belly dance.

 

Architect; born in 1945 in Lublin; 1972 – diploma from the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Warsaw. In the years 1984-1989 – author’s atelier formed with Olgierd Jagiełło within the framework of Spółdzielnia Pracy Twórczej Architektów Plastyków [Architect Artists’ Co-Operative]. 1988 – established a company, JEMS Architekci, in cooperation with Olgierd Jagiełło and Maciej Miłobędzki (the company has been in operation until the present moment). President of OW SARP [Union of Polish Architects, Warsaw Department] in the period from 1984 to 1987; secretary of the National Chamber of Architects (2001 – 2005). Laureate of SARP Honorific Award – 2002.

 Significant performances:

 - Ursynów Północny – a residential complex 1972-19795 - Greenhouse and restaurant in Warsaw – 20094

 - Registered business office of Agora S.A. ul. Czerska in Warsaw – 20004 - Detached houses in Bielany and Łomianki – 2006 i 20084

 - GTC Mokotów Business Park – office buildings: MERCURY, SATURN, MARS, NEPTUN, ORION, SYRIUSZ, TAURUS – 1995-20004

 Significant contests:

 - Ursynów Północny – a residential complex 1972 (1st prize6) - “Opera” Hotel, pl. Piłsudskiego in Warsaw – 1988 (1st prize7)

 - EXPO ’95 (international contest) in Vienna –1991 (4th prize3) - Registered business office of Agora S.A., at ul. Czerska in Warsaw – 1998 (1st prize8)

 - Temple of Divine Providence – 2000 (1st prize ex aequo4) - Enlargement of the Raczyński Library in Poznań – 2003 (1st prize4)

 - European Square in Kiev – 2005 (1st prize4) - Department of Applied Linguistics and Neophilology of the University of Warsaw – 2006 (2nd prize4)

 - International Congress Centre in Katowice – 2008 (1st prize4) - Nowy Theatre in Warsaw – 2009 (2nd prize4)

 - Municipal stadium in Łódź – 2009 (1st prize4) - Warsaw Airport City – 2009 (1st prize4)

1 z M. Budzyńskim i A. Szkopem

2 z L. Borawskim i A. Szkopem

3 z M. Miłobędzkim i O. Jagiełło

4 z M. Miłobędzkim, O. Jagiełło i M. Sadowskim

5 in co-operation with M. Budzyński and A. Szkop

6 in co-operation with L. Borawski and A. Szkop

7 in co-operation with M. Miłobędzki and O. Jagiełło

8 in co-operation with M. Miłobędzki, O. Jagiełło and M. Sadowski

 

 

Landscape desgner. She was born and raised in the mine landscape of Bełchatów. She made her M.Sc. diploma in the field of Garden and Landscape Art at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW (June 2006). Since 2007 a designer in The Guzzardo Partnership, Inc. – a Land Planning and Landscape Architecture studio in San Francisco, USA. Cultural manager cooperating with artists from Poland on competition designs and artistic projects. In her free time, a designer and adviser in designing home gardens in San

 

MA degree in Ethnology at the University of Warsaw, UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Division of Architecture in Cottbus). Research experience gained in Poland, Georgia, Vietnam, USA, and Germany. As of 2005, a co-creator of the project entitled Open Gardens (www.otwarteogrody.pl) in towns located in the Masovian Voivodeship as well as an initiator of educational, cultural and promotional activities aimed at documenting, protecting and developing heritage as well as activities within the scope of ecology. Magdalena Prosińska established and runs a website: Land of Garden Cities (www.miastaogrody.pl), whose goal is to promote heritage of Masovian garden-cities. In recognition of her achievements, Magdalena Prosińska received multiple awards including, among others, the prestigious Award of the Marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship. Since 2008 within the framework of Heritage for the Future Foundation, she also coordinated a project entitled Open Gardens, aimed at historical villages. The principal objective of this project consisted in protecting and searching for alternative manners of usage of monumental rural architecture as well as in development of tourism and promotion of historical craftsmanship and folk art (www.otwartezagrody.org). Magdalena Prosińska was the President of INTBAU (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism) in Poland as well as a member of PTN (Preservation Trades Network). Living in Podkowa and Berlin, she takes part in German and Polish projects. In 2011 in her art gallery in Berlin, Magdalena Prosińska organised an exhibition called “Exotic Poland. Paper Cut-outs from Masovia” which promoted Masovian cut-outs. 

She completed studies in the field of music theory, music pedagogy and sociology of culture; earned a PhD degree in Sociology of Culture at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Science. In the years 1967-1993, she was an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science. In the subsequent years, she was in charge of the Department of Sociology of Culture and Department of Social Statistics of the Central Statistical Office. In 1998 she became a member of the team of experts ad personam assisting the Government Plenipotentiary for Poland’s Accession to the European Union. As a part of her duties resulting from holding the position of Minister’s Councillor in the Committee for European Integration (2003-2009), she initiated multiple researches within the scope of changes in social awareness and attitudes towards the consequences of Poland’s accession to the European Union. She is the author of approximately 200 publications concerning sociology of culture and social aspects of Poland’s membership in the European Union. At present, she is involved in academic activities, releases publications as well as holds social functions in many foundations such as Poland in Europe, Pro Publico Bono and Central and Eastern European Media Centre Foundation.

 

Born in 1939 – an architect and town planner, associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology, member of the Main Committee for Town Planning and Architecture, and Polish Architecture Council.

 Together with his co-workers he has taken part in numerous competitions and authored many projects including:

 - Railway Station in Nowe Tychy,

 - Monument of Victory on Playa Giron,

 - Housing estate complex in North Ursynów, Warsaw,

 - Ascension Church in Ursynów, Warsaw,

 - Supreme Court Complex in Warsaw,

 - Warsaw University Library Complex,

 - The Temple of Holy Providence in Warsaw,  

- The Podlasie Opera Complex in Białystok,

 - “Pod Brzozami” residential development complex,  

- University of Bialystok Campus.

 He is an author of individual and joint publications and academic studies.

 

 Received multiple awards: among others, honored with Officer’s Cross in 1996, and with the first Medal of King Stanisław August granted to persons who rendered greatest service towards building the majesty of the capital of Poland in 2004; laureate of St. Brother Albert prize and the Totus distinction; laureate of the Honorary SARP Prize in 1993.

 

Alumni and PhD of the Jagiellonian University. Philosopher, ethicist, member of a local government. Long-standing academic teacher at the present University of Economy in Cracow. Long-standing councillor of Cracow City Council. Member of the Local Government of Kraków Voivodeship, 2nd term of office. At present, he conducts classes on ethics in management at the School of Banking and Management in Cracow. He is preoccupied with broadly defined philosophy of the man. He co-operates with multiple non-profit organisations. A happy grandfather.

 

Born in 1977, architect. Graduated in 2002, since 2003 has worked as an assistant in the Urban Planning Research Lab in the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2004 she became an assistant designer and later a designer in Marek Budzyński’s team; she has cooperated with him in a number of competitions including “Commemoration of the Oldest Jewish Cemetery in Kazimierz-upon-Vistula” and Via Dolorosa in Chełm, and in the projects such as: Wilanów Technology Park and “Pod Brzozami” residential development complex;

 

co-designed The Podlasie Opera and University of Bialystok Campus.

 

Architect. She dealt with urban architecture. Her works included theory, design and teaching town planning and also managing urban planning enterprises. Her PhD dissertation titled "Przestrzen intencjonalna w architekturze i urbanistyce wspó3czesnej" ("Intentional space in architecture and contemporary town planning") showed the potential of applications of Martin Heidegger's thought in designing architectural form and urban spaces, particularly the possibility of reading urban architecture through the space categories of cemetery, house, workshop and temple. She applied her reflections in competition and didactic projects winning professional awards and honours as well as recognition of her students, colleagues and friends. She was a member of the group that initiated works on issues of semiology in architecture in Poland. She was the co-author of The Granary Island Seminar (1989) in Gdansk - the legendary international undertaking that became the manifestation of European openness of the young generation of Tri-City (Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia) architects. After the Seminar she served as deputy to the Mayor of Gdansk for The Granary Island and worked on realisation of its ideas.

She graduated from the Miko3aj Kopernik Secondary School No 1 in Gdansk. She received her MSc (1978) and PhD (1987) from the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdansk University of Technology.

Graduated The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Faculty of Interior Design) and Fashion Institute of Technology University, New York City.

He is the founder of Nizio Design International (NDI) design studio which is situated in the Praga district of Warsaw since 2002 and specilises in the design of museum complexes and thematic expositions. He is the founder of Nizio Gallery, a modern art gallery which promotes artists from all over the world.

Earlier he had founded a design company in New York where he was given, among others Glenn Boyles Memorial Rendering And Design Award (1993) and Educational Foundation for the Design Industries in Interior Design Award (1998). He was a speaker at numerous conferences, including: "The Politics of Memory. Strategie pamieci", Imperial War Museum London, Conference Deinze (Belgium), Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation.

Each project of NDI is directed especially at muesum visitors - their needs of knowledge and aesthetics, and at the possibilities to create and develop museum areas. The characteristic feature of NDI designs is the reconstruction of history through cutting-edge technology in such a way that it becomes alive and personal and invites to interaction with the museum facility. Wa?niejsze nagrody/awards:

Ważniejsze nagrody/awards:

• I miejsce w konkursie architektonicznym na Muzeum Polaków ratujących - Żydów na Podkarpaciu im. Rodziny Ulmów w Markowej (2010)
• wyróżnienie w międzynarodowym konkursie architektonicznym na projekt Centrum Dialogu "Przełomy" w Szczecinie (2009)
• I miejsce w międzynarodowym konkursie na stworzenie Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej we Wrocławiu (2008)

Archeologist, art historian. Since 1985 has been a specialist in the Department of Research and Monuments Preservation in State Ateliers for Conservation of Cultural Property. After 1989 he was a specialist and vice president in the Ministry of Culture, till 1996 he held the position of the Technical Deputy to Conservator-General of the Republic of Poland; from 1999 the Director-General of the Office of Conservator-General of the Republic of Poland; since July 2002 he has been the Director of The Wilanow Palace Museum. He is, among others: a lecturer at The Academy of Heritage at Cracow University of Economics and Postgraduate Museum Studies at The University of Warsaw, President of the "Genius Loci" Association, member of the Council on Monuments Preservation Department in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, acting President of the Polish National Committee of International Council of Museums, Deputy Chair of The Council on Monuments Preservation of the Mayor of the Capital City of Warsaw, member of the ICC Programme Board in Cracow, chair of the Programme Board of Fundacja Kultury Ekologicznej "Dwór Czarne" (Foundation of Ecological Culture "Czarne Manor" and co-founder of the Academy of Creative Entrepreneurship. Mr Jaskanis is also an expert in the management of monuments preservation in Poland, legal bases of monuments preservation, management of custody of monuments and cooperation with NGOs. He authored a number of publications on preservation and custody of cultural monuments.

Architect, lecturer at the Faculty of Interior Design at The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and guest lecturer at other universities. His main interests include artistic creation connected with balanced development; architectural criticism and journalism; and new models of common architectural education aiming, among others, at communicating with the surroundings and activating the users of space.

archiect DECPra, LOIARP, OAF, SARP, urbanist
Born in 1960 in Lublin, he has been living and working in Paris (since 1982) and Warsaw (since 1996). He completed postgraduate studies of the Theory of Architecture at Ecole d'Architecture - Paris Villemin, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology, studies of architecture at Ecole d'Architecture Paris la Seine and studies of French culture and civilisation at Universite de la Sorbonne. He authored a dozen or so books and publications, was given numerous awards and honourable mentions. In 2000 he was granted the title of the Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the President of the Republic of Poland.

Born in 1946 in Stalowa Wola.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1975. He is a university teacher, works as an architect, draws and paints in watercolours.

Between 1985 and 1990 he stayed in the Middle East. During his professional trips and nature tours he created series of drawing and painting nature and architectural studies of Poland, Syria, Iraq and Italy, which were presented on collective and individual exhibitions. He was given the award of the city of Rome: Verso il Giubileo 2000, Premio Internazionale "Beato Angelico" per Polonia 1998 for a collection of drawings and watercolour paintings of nature, called "Roman Impressions".

Diploma in Graphic Techniques in 1975 from The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The numerous fields of his artistic creation include painting, graphics, drawing, applied graphics, actions, installations, poetry, reporting and journalism. He is connected with an artistic group Bok Wyspy.

He published his poems, reports, reviews, columns and drawings in such magazines and newspapers as Kontynenty, Mówiš Wieki, Voyage, Arche, Kwartalnik Rzeźby "Orońsko", Powściągliwość i Praca, Głos, Gazeta Polska, Rzeczpospolita, Odra. He takes part in sailing and diving expeditions. He lives and works in Warsaw.

Published books:
nonfiction: Po drugiej stronie nieba, MAW 1987 ("On the other side of the sky" - a book on Polynesia)
poetry: Niech ci się przyjrzę, Przedświt 1999 ("Let me look at you"), Bolesne, Dom

Born in 1983 in Cracow. In 2007 she graduated from the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She did her internship in The Princes Czartoryski Library at National Museum in Cracow and in Museum of London. Between 2008 and 2010 she worked for Lokator Bestlooker Publishing in Cracow. Currently she works as a museum guide in National Museum in Krakow and since 2010 has been cooperating with Foundation Wojciech Weiss Museum in Cracow

He was born in Vilnus in 1944, graduated from (and currently is a head of) the Section of Environmental Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture at Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology.

His academic research activities encompass the issues of architectural psychology, being on the meeting point of the theory of architecture and architectural design with environmental psychology. His scientific achievements comprise more than 100 studies, including a survey entitled "Historia myśli psychologicznej w architekturze" (The history of psychological thought in architecture) (1994-2001) and the Polish part of REGENTIF project devoted to the methodology of revitalisation of exindustrial areas and facilities (2003-2007). He is the author of "O psychologii architektury" (On architectural psychology; second ed. 1994), "Słownik psychologii architektury" (Dictionary of architectural psychology; fourth ed. 2010) and the entry on architectural psychology in "Encyklopedia psychologii" (Encyclopaedia of psychology) edited by W. Szewczuk (1998).

Prof. Lenartowicz is the founding member of IAPS (International Association for People-Environment Studies,1979), Stowarzyszenie Psychologia i Architektura (Psychology and Architecture Association, 1999) and Polish Society of Aesthetics (2002), he is also a member of the Urbanity and Architecture Commission of The Krakow Branch of Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1999), SARP (The Association of Polish Architects) and of the Lesser Poland District Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland.

Prof. Lenartowicz's artistic achievements in architecture and urban planning comprise more than 100 projects, including numerous award-winning ones. He is the author of, among others, a realisation of a parish church in Wilkasy (since 1984) and co-author of the Nuremberg House in Cracow (1996) and the buildings of Second Section of Internal Diseases at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Cracow (1992-1996). He also won the 3rd Degree Award "1999 Building of the Year" of The Chamber of Construction Designing.

Architect, painter, historian, critic of architecture and art. Currently he is a professor at the Section of Landscape Art at Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW where he deals with culture and the philosophy of space.

Economist and broker. Since the foundation of the brokerage house Penetrator S.A. in 1987 in Cracow, he was the President of its Management Board till 2004, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board till 2008. He is an initiator and member of numerous associations and foundations, including: Stowarzyszenie 10 Czerwca (President), Stowarzyszenie Centrum im. Mirosława Dzielskiego (President), Krakow Foundation of Ballet Culture (Chair of the Board), Stowarzyszenie Archi szopa (Chair), Cracovia Urbs Europaea (Treasurer), Krakowski Klub Biegacza Dystans (Cracow Runners Club "Distance"), Genius Loci.

Twice he co-presided in the civil legislative initiatives for changing the electoral regulations to the majority system in one-mandate constituencies. Mr Madej also writes on social-economical issues, is a marathon runner and a father of three.

Born in 1951 in Zalesie near Dšbie (Wielkopolskie province). He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology (diploma in 1977), next he took up studies in the History of Philosophy at the Academy of Catholic Theology (currently Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw).

His original and broadly comprehended artistic work intermingles aspects of artistic-spatial, mathematical and philosophical thinking. His artistic creation includes graphic art, posters, magazine illustrations, book illustrations, set design and painting. During his studies his works were published, among others, in "Literatura", "Szpilki", "Forum" magazines, as well as in the French and German press. Since 1981 he has lived in New York City and worked with "The New York Times", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Washington Post", "The Boston Globe", "Graphis", "Print" and "Rzeczpospolita". He runs his column "Pion, poziom" in the "Plus i minus" magazine. His works are among the collections of numerous museums and galleries around the world, e.g. The Museum of Modern Art in New York, San Francisco Musem of Modern Art, IBM Collection, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi (Museum of Modern Art in Łódź).

He is the artistic director of The Chopin Society of New York and honorary member of Polish American Business Club. The first monument of K-dron in the world was unveiled in September 2009 in Koło.

Architect, urbanist, local government activist. He studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology; a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture and postgraduate studies in Town Planning and Landscape Economy at the Warsaw University of Technology. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Urban Design and Rural Landscape and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology, and deputy to the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology for Community Meetings and Discussions.

His research and teaching work include town planning, spatial economy, cultural heritage preservation and cooperation with local governments and unions. He is an expert in public-private enterprise and real estate investment. He takes part in legislative work in the fields of spatial planning, civil engineering and real estate. He is the author of many publications on town and spatial planning.

He holds a diploma of MSc. Eng.; studied at the faculty of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology.

He is a member of Polish Jazz Association and ZAiKS (Association of Stage Writers and Composers), co-founder and programme director of Remont Club (or Riviera-Remont). He is also a co-founder and leader of an alternative group "DaaB" which gained its reputation as the world's best "white" group playing "black" music. Mr Deska fought for independent art and is famous for his "Free Jam sessions", "I a M", "Warsaw-Berlin-Moscow" and an "Independent Polish Culture" festival that took place in Belgrade in 1981. He also organised the first meeting with Lech Walesa in Warsaw at the onset of the 'Solidarity' union in 1980. He cooperated closely with Henryk Gajewski, Andrzej Słowicki and Tomasz Stańko. As an ecologist "by Nature" he fights to regain the right to live "in harmony with nature" that was appropriated by the state. He opposes the conformist-totalitarian utopias in architecture and law.

Majored in Social Work at The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw and in the History of Art and Culture at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun; currently studying at The University of Warsaw. Her main interests in both, life and art, include crossing the boundaries between that of possible and impossible, playing with absurdity, the elements that are surprising and do not match well together, as well as traditional values of purely aesthetic nature.

Born in 1981, planner by profession, graduated from Interfaculty Studies in Spatial Economy at Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW. He is also a photographer and traveller. While researching space, he mainly makes use of his camera. He is interested in the concept of the city and its random faces. Though professionally connected to Warsaw, his emotions concentrate on Spain, and his thoughts travel further than that.

Landscape architect, graduate of Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW. While designing she aims at the synthesis of nature and art, makes use of the potential and magic of the place. Everyday she experiences both the walks in the gardens and the catwalks.

Landscape architect, artist with a passion for visual arts. She creates animations, lighting installations, visualizations; she paints. Currently a PhD candidate at Dept of Landscape Art, Warsaw University of Life Sciences. In her research she explores the subject of creation of the city's nightscape by the usage of alternative light forms

Landscape architect, designer, photographer, man of the road. He leads design studio, working on a new city pattern inspired by observations of the world. He spends his free time on the road looking for inspirations in people and landscape. He shares his experience by leading numerous shows and exhibitions of travel photography.