Video testimonials available below and on our channels
TheFOPA 2020 Festival of Open Architectural Studios is an event in the OEES Festival 2020 program - three days of meetings in studios (November 16, 19 and 20), during which participants and spectators will have the opportunity to meet the most interesting architects from the top studios in their daily work environment, take a look at their design and research method, learn about their perspective on the city or the aesthetics of urban space, see models, projects, photos and the people working there. This year's edition of the festival will be held online, so we will be able to enter studios from Poland and abroad. Thus, there will be an opportunity to see what the process of creating architecture looks like from behind the scenes and to take a look at the design method of the offices invited to the festival.
On November 16, 2020, we were shown around their studio by:
MONIKA ARCZYŃSKA & ŁUKASZ PANCEWICZ
from A2P2 architecture and planning studio
The video is available on our Facebook page and on YouTube
A2P2 architecture and planning - one of the best and most interesting architectural and urban planning offices in Poland. It is engaged in solving urban problems regardless of scale - from millimeters to hectares. The studio's experience is based on the knowledge and practice of its partners Monika Arczynska, an architect, and Lukasz Pancewicz, an urban planner.
Monika ARCZYÑSKA is an architect with many years of international experience in designing award-winning buildings with cultural functions for Heneghan Peng Architects (Grand Egyptian Museum, Palestine Museum, National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and others). As part of A2P2 architecture&planning, she has developed a strategy for the temporary and permanent adaptation of post-shipyard buildings into a contemporary art museum (over 12,600 sq. m. of floor space). She is a lecturer at the Gdansk University of Technology and also teaches at the University of Gdansk and the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, among others. Together with Łukasz Pancewicz, she runs an experimental design studio at the Gdansk University of Technology, where she is responsible for project management. Her doctoral thesis, defended with distinction, dealt with the relationship between consumer society and sustainable housing. She studied at Gdansk University of Technology and Technische Universiteit Delft and has worked in design offices in Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland. Her experience ranges in scale from feasibility studies, preparation of conceptual, construction and detailed design documentation, to site supervision.
Lukasz PANCEWICZ is an urban planner with several years of international experience in the public and private sectors. Prior to founding A2P2 architecture&planning, he worked for design and consulting firms in Poland and Ireland. From 2013 to 2016 he was the chief designer of the Municipal Urban Planning Studio in Lodz. An expert of the National Institute of Spatial Policy and Housing, he worked on the implementation of a pilot revitalization program in Walbrzych and Lodz. In his professional work he focuses on combining revitalization with the implementation of participatory methods. Since 2009 he has been associated with the Gdansk University of Technology and the University of Gdansk as an academic teacher and author of scientific publications. In his research work, he has dealt with the issues of large urban projects as urban policy and the role of grassroots activities and participation in planning. He prepared an assessment of the spatial policy of Lodz for the OECD. In 2011-2012, he participated in a one-year internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He participated in the work of the Congress of Urban Movements and gave seminars and lectures on urban issues. Member of TUP and ISOCARP.
On November 19, 2020, he gave us a tour of his studio:
SZYMON WOJCIECHOWSKI
from APA Wojciechowski Architects
broadcast available on our Facebook and YouTube
APA Wojciechowski Architekci - is one of the largest architectural studios in Poland. APA's designers have many years of design experience gained at home and abroad, and have among their achievements the urban design of a residential district for 150,000 residents of Ryad-Rabat in Morocco, numerous architectural and urban planning projects in Algeria, conceptual designs for Abuja in Nigeria and many projects in Poland.
Szymon WOJCIECHOWSKI is an architect with over thirty years of experience, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Detroit (USA), a member of the Mazovian Regional Chamber of Architects. Since 1982 he has been associated with APA Wojciechowski - currently APA Wojciechowski sp. z o.o., where he serves as President of the Board, CEO. His many years of experience combined with his love and passion for creating beautiful shapes allows him to design unique buildings with high functionality.
Author or co-author of many well-known architectural projects, including: White Square Office Center and White Gardens Office Center in Moscow, UNIT.City in Kiev, Lviv.Tech.City in Lviv, Elektrownia Powiśle, Skyliner, The Park Warsaw, Lantern (Port Praski), Galeria Północna (Warsaw), Riverview Estate, Officyna and Alchemia in Gdansk, Business Garden Wroclaw and Centrum Południe in Wroclaw, Nova Silesia (Katowice) and The Park Krakow.
Winner of many awards, including: Leadership of the Year - CIJ Awards 2019; 1st place in the Forbes Professionals 2012 competition in the Public Trust - Mazovia - Architect category; Architect of the year - Business Center Class A - Commercial Real Estate Moscow Awards 2010;Architect of theyear2009. - CEE Real Estate Quality Awards in cooperation with the Financial Times.
On November 20, 2020, we were given a tour of the studio:
MATEUSZ MASTALSKI
from the Henning Larsen studio
broadcast available on our Facebook and YouTube
Henning Larsen Studio
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Henning Larsen is one of the most well-known, prominent and committed architectural offices in the world. It was founded in Copenhagen in 1959 by architect Henning Larsen, whose name it proudly carries to this day. He creates architecture with curiosity and artistic boldness based on knowledge and attention to detail. Copenhagen is their base, but with offices in New York, Munich, Hong Kong, Riyadh, Oslo and the Faroe Islands, they operate globally, but always in a local context. In the fields of architecture, landscape design, engineering, interior and graphic design and consulting, the studio is shaping the life and architecture of tomorrow.
Mateusz MASTALSKI is an architect and urban planner. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology. He has worked in the offices of Medusa Group, KWK Promes, MVRDV and COBE. Since 2008 he has lived permanently in Copenhagen, where he has been a member of the Henning Larsen team since 2014. He specializes in competitions, master plans and large public facility projects. Among other projects, he has led the development of the Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk, a concert hall in Ostrava and the Vejlands Kvarter social district in Copenhagen. Repeated tutor at InDeSem, CanActions and OSSA workshops. Masterclass presenter at École nationale supérieure d'architecture in Marseille.
Thank you all for your participation and support.
We look forward to the next edition.
