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Sylwia Pawlowska, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, January 12, 1990, is an Architect and Urban Planner. She graduated from the Technical University of Łodz, Poland.
Her extracurricular activities included, among other things, taking part in a scientific expedition to south-western Ukraine, to measure and create full documentation of wooden Hutsul-style orthodox churches from the XVII–XIX century. As a member of the Students Union „KÄ¢“, she participated in the design and construction of the parametric “P3 Pavilion” for the international exhibition “Lodz Design Festival” (2013).
During the „Erasmus“ exchange program she attended the 1st year of the Master Programme at KU Leuven in Gent, Belgium, on the International Master in Architecture faculty (2013–2014).
She gained professional experience during her studies, working as an architect assistant/intern at DiM89 in Warsaw, Poland (2012), Ramon Fernandez Alonso Arquitecto in Granada, Spain (2014) and Henning Larsen Architects in Munich, Germany (2014–2015).
Her Master’s Thesis was strongly connected with the sustainable design of lightweight structures, which remains her major interest.
She has been working at Andreas Vogler Studio since November 2015.
„A designer should ask himself a question: ‘Why was the cathedral built near the mountain? Why is the mountain not enough for prayer?’“ (Yvon Le Mein) — before starting the design process. Alternative solutions might sometimes be astonishingly simple; beyond this simplicity rises a complex phenomena of thoughts and a sustainable approach. A building is only a light cover for the mechanism that people need, and it should be as changeable as their life is, with the smallest impact on natural resources and climate.
„We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.“ (Richard Buckminster Fuller)