Summary of FOPA 2024 (fall edition)
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Three days, three offices, three visions of architecture. The autumn edition of the Festival of Open Architecture Studios, an event that has been accompanying the International Value Economy Congress Open Eyes Economy Summit for years, is behind us. Which studios did we visit this time?
The 10th anniversary edition of FOPA, the Festival of Open Architectural Studios organized by A&B since 2018, is behind us. FOPA is a unique opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the best design studios in Poland and around the world, learn the secrets of the architects and architects who work in them, and ask about their perspective on the profession. All meetings were broadcast live on A&B's YouTube channel and Facebook page.
This time we visited the offices in Rybnik and Warsaw:
Toprojekt
"When necessary, we use the brick that has been known for millennia, and parametrically designed panels elsewhere," the architects of the Toprojekt studio write about themselves. This philosophy is expressed in the projects and realizations of the Rybnik-based team, such as the Mies van der Rohe Award-nominated Ore House or the kindergarten in Zory, or the competition-winning designs for the new main railway station in Częstochowa and the headquarters of the County Office in Toruń. The family team of architects, founded by Marek and Joanna Wawrzyniak, is complemented by Sheri (a female barn owl, in the studio dealing with security) and Boris (a therapy cat, he devotes his free time to waste management).
NizioDesign International
The Nizio Design International office specializes in designing the country's most important museums, including the award-winning Mausoleum of the Martyrdom of Polish Villages in Mich niów, the Ulma Family Museum in Markowa and exhibitions - including displays at the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Miroslaw Nizio 's Warsaw office, which has been operating since 2002, is appreciated and awarded both at home and abroad. Interestingly, the studio's headquarters is located at 3 Inżynierska Street in Warsaw's Praga Północ district, in a legendary complex of tenement houses that are symbols of artistic bohemia. Find out what secrets of this location we discovered during FOPY!
Archigrest
Marcin Maraszek and Maciej Kaufman have been working together since 2008, and as Archigrest they have been active since 2015, i.e. since winning the Europan international competition. This event gave rise to further successes - they are on everyone's tongues, first and foremost thanks to winning almost all possible awards (including the prestigious The European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024!), the groundbreaking realization of the park under the Warsaw Uprising Mound, the "Storm" Action Park in Warsaw, which they created together with the topoScape studio. The architects are eager to engage in workshops, research projects and educational activities, and successfully compete in design competitions.
Meetings within the framework of the Festival of Open Architectural Studios are often the only opportunity to see from behind the scenes what happens every day in architectural offices and personally ask the architects and architects who work in them about issues of interest to the profession. Those who missed the LIVE broadcasts and active interaction with architects are invited to watch the recorded events. Look forward to future editions!
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Thank you for the support of the Partners of the event, which in this edition were:
The event was held under the patronage of:
SARP Krakow Branch
