08/05/2025
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Conversations with emerging Polish architects
Meeting with architect Zygmunt Borawski
Meeting with architect Zygmunt Borawski
- Architecture and the climate crisis. Social housing. Design as speculation and experiment. What are young architects all about?
- We are continuing a series of meetings with selected architectural studios, which will talk about their work ethos, selected projects, how they find their place on the local architectural scene, what being progressive means to them and how they manage to survive in difficult professional and economic circumstances.
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- The guest of the next meeting will be architect, lecturer, and journalist Zygmunt Borawski. He is a co-founder of the international architectural collective A-A Collective, with which he is currently realizing the Central Square project in Warsaw, scheduled to open in May 2025. Since 2020, he has also been running his own design practice. From 2015 to 2020, he was the editor of the Architecture and Design section of the quarterly Przekrój. Between 2021 and 2022, he taught at the Warsaw University of Technology, and since 2022 he has been a teaching assistant at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
- The meeting will not be recorded or broadcast, because we want to have an honest conversation and hear each other. Thanks to simultaneous translations - also available in English.
- The idea for the series was conceived by the Warsaw studio TŁO led by Michał Sikorski, which uses the work of urban planners and landscape architects in its architectural design. It creates buildings and public spaces. The studio published a research paper on the space of university campuses, and also prepared the exhibition Poetics of Necessity in the Polish pavilion at the London Design Biennale in 2023. In December 2024, the studio won the international competition for the reconstruction and expansion of the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław.
- Free admission
