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Meeting with the Architektura Wrażliwa studio
- 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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Architektura Wrażliwa (Vulnerable Architecture) is an architectural studio founded in 2021 by Agnieszka Kacprzak and Łukasz Szczepanowicz – graduates of the Architecture and Urban Planning course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, from which they graduated with honours.
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The studio focuses on designing inhabitable places - the spaces closest to people - while developing the idea of regenerative architecture, which not only does less harm but actively supports, heals and renews. They create spaces that are sensitive to the rhythms of nature, caring for the well-being of both inhabitants and the environment. They ask questions about what we build with and how we build. They strive for architecture based on natural materials, circular and beautiful – design that inspires, educates and encourages greater care for the environment. In their practice, they accept imperfection and randomness, opening themselves up to the unpredictable results of working with unusual material.
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- 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.
