Architecture & Business invites you to stationary AUTHOR'S LECTURES! In June we will visit Gdansk University of Technology and Warsaw University of Technology! Our special guest will be Robert Konieczny - one of the most recognized Polish architects, creator of the KWK Promes studio. During the meetings with students, Robert Konieczny will talk not only about his most important projects, but also about his breakthroughs and difficult moments, which - although demanding and full of challenges - from today's perspective turned out to be crucial for his development and professional success.
The lectures in the "Path to the Profession" series are designed to support female architecture students in their conscious entry into professional life. This is a form of learning that goes beyond traditional academic classes - based on meetings with experienced architects active in the industry.
Through direct contact with practitioners, young male and female architecture students gain not only inspiration, but also specific guidance on design work, decision-making, facing challenges and professional responsibility. The aim of the series is to build awareness that as future designers and designers they will have a real impact on the quality of the space we live in, and that it is worth taking this responsibility seriously from the very beginning of their careers.
Two lectures by Robert Konieczny already in June
Together with Robert Konieczny, we invite you to Gdansk and Warsaw! Don't miss this opportunity - it will be inspiring, sincere and very practical!
- June 4, 2025, at 12:00 - Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology, room 311, G. Narutowicza St. 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk,
- June 5, 2025, 3:00 p.m. - Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, room 103, 55 Koszykowa St., 00-659 Warsaw.
Admission is free!
Attendees and participants will receive event packages, including bags and A&B magazines.
Robert Konieczny
The guest speaker is Robert Konieczny - one of the best known architects in Poland, leading the unquestionably successful KWK PROMES studio. A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. In 1996 he was certified by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Head of KWK Promes office established in 1999.
In 2012, he became an independent expert of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. In 2016, the project of the National Museum - Breakthroughs Dialogue Center in Szczecin was named the Best Building of the World 2016 in the international competition of the World Architecture Festival. This award went to Poland for the first time in history. The same project also won first prize in 2016, winning the title of Europe's Best Public Space in the European Prize for Urban Public Space competition awarded by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB). The most recent honor for the Designer is the title of Best House in the World for Konieczny's Ark in the global Wallpaper Design 2017 competition. Konieczny has been nominated ten times for the European Prize of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. He is the winner of the prestigious 2006 House of the Year award for his design of the Aatrial House winning the World Architecture News portal's competition for the best residential house in the world. In 2011 Robert Konieczny received the annual award of the Minister of Culture, for outstanding achievements in architecture, as the second architect in the history of the award.
In 2007 he was included in the list of the world's 44 best young architects by the "Scalae" publication. In the same year, Wallpaper magazine ranked Robert Konieczny's studio among the 101 most exciting architectural offices in the world. In 2008, Konieczny was also the winner of "Europe 40 under 40" - Europe's Emerging Young Architects and Designers, awarded by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum, to the world's best young designers under the age of 40. In the same year, the International Jury of the Museum of Architecture and Design in Chicago named the Aatrial House and the Hidden House among the world's best buildings. In 2009, the Safe House reached the finals of the 2009 World Architecture Festival Awards in Barcelona, among the world's best projects, and the OUTrial House in the same year was shortlisted for the finals of the 2009 LEAF Awards in Berlin, a competition for the world's most innovative buildings. In February 2012, the OUTrial House was named the best building of the Third Republic of Poland in an architectural poll announced by Polityka weekly.
Aleksandra Skorupa
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Lecture partners are:
- Aliplast
- Bella Plast
- Domesta
- Dyson
- Dre
- Geberit
- Kaspersky
- Padilla
- Saint-Gobain Poland
- Woodeco
- Wood of Fire
The content partners of the lectures are:
- Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology
- Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology
Patronage:
SARP Krakow Branch
