THE ATLAS OF WARSAW WOMEN ARCHITECTS (LE-SK)

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1962. Professionally, she was associated with the General Building Design Bureau, where she designed residential estates and office buildings for 37 years. 

Co-author of the Blue Skyscraper – one of the first modern skyscrapers in Poland. It weaves together threads of Warsaw’s history, its political and economic transformations, as well as urban legends. 

(1924–2014) 

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1950. In the first years after the war, she worked at Pracownia W-Z, which carried out the project to build the Mariensztat housing estate. 

Co-author of the Brother Albert Welfare Home on Kawęczyńska Street, one of the most interesting architectural buildings of its time. Its construction began during the crisis of the 1980s. 

(1894–1983) 

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1929. She worked in the Urban Planning Department of the Bureau for the Reconstruction of the Capital. She is co-author of the 1956 master plan of Warsaw. 

(1902– ) 

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1928. She worked on projects for residential buildings, including the TOR Grochów estate and a building for the Military Accommodation Fund on Nowowiejska Street.

(1920–2020) 

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1948. Her professional life was mainly associated with designing housing estates in the Warsaw district of Bielany. Together with her husband, Kazimierz Piechotka, she developed the W-70 and Wk-70 large-panel system. 

(1904-1944)

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1932. Together with her husband Jerzy Poznański, she designed the luxurious Lido Hotel in Jurata. 

(1908–1996) 

She studied at the Faculty of Horticulture at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. In 1932, she defended her diploma thesis at the Department of Architecture and Park Design. She designed private gardens, parks, and green spaces in housing estates. 

(1902–1997) 

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1934. In January 1945, together with architects Bohdan Lachert, Julian Puterman-Sadłowski and Józef Sigalin, as a member of the Operational Group Warsaw, she set off from Lublin to Warsaw to take stock of the destruction of the capital. 

(1921-2011)

She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology in 1948, where she taught from 1971 onwards. In her work, she paid particular attention to the social function of residential buildings and the ecology of the city. In designing, she took into account the needs of people with disabilities. 

The Atlas of Warsaw Women Architects presents the achievements of 41 female architects born before 1939, whose work can still be seen in the city.  The biographies of these women are as varied as the buildings they designed – from modernist housing estates, through public institution buildings, to landscaping and recreational facilities.  Their projects co-created the urban space in the 20th century, introducing innovative solutions and adapting the architecture to the changing needs of the inhabitants. 

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