EwelinaWoźniak-Szpakiewicz, Architect
Ewelina is both an architect and a researcher. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Cracow University of Technology (CUT) and also completed her Erasmus Scholarship at the HAWK Hildesheim in Germany. Recently, she received a PhD degree in Architecture and Urban Design. Her PhD research has a primary focus on temporary intelligent architectural structures. Her architectural and urban paradigms investigated spacial and sociological influences in the realm of the public space. Currently she is in the process of a Masters Studies at the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. She has been a recipient of a CEEPUS research internship at University in Vienna(2011), Bratislava (2012) and Prague(2012). She has also completed the Visiting Teachers Program at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (2013). Her architectural career has not only been restricted to her homestead, Poland but also to offices as far as the City of Dublin, Ireland. In 2007 she established an architectural practice - Up Studio, where her architectural pursuits hinged primarily on the threshold between Art and Architecture.
She has been involved in numerous residential projects and design/built two temporary on-site art-installations for public spaces: provocation “Good Investment” (awarded in the Fresh Zone Competition of Art Boom Festival in Cracow in 2010) and “Light Installation” (as a part of Cracow Theatrical Reminiscences Festival in 2012).
Currently, Ewelina holds an active position as an Architectural Faculty Assistant at the Institute of Urban Design (CUT) and an instructor at the International Center of Education of CUT. For several years now she has been a tutor at numerous international design workshops in Poland, Austria and Italy. In 2011 she became an initiator and a Chair of Miastotwórcze Foundation and, in 2013, a Board Member of INTBAU Poland Foundation (a part of The International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism).
Ewelina is interested in all aspects of the emerging and contemporary links between art, sociology and architecture as well as mobility and temporariness at all realms of the built-environment.
