Aktualności | The Faculty of Architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology

The cooperation between the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology and the City of Gdynia has been effective for years. One of the outcomes of this collaboration is the co-organization of the international conference "Modernism in Europe – Modernism in Gdynia," which will have its 10^th anniversary on September 18–20 at the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park Gdynia.

On 11^th of April 2024, educational classes were held at the Faculty of Architecture of Gdańsk University of Technology as part of the “Shaping Spaces” project. We had the pleasure of hosting students from class 3E, with a mathematics and geography profile, from the High School no. 2 in Gdańsk.

On 31^st of March 2025, as part of the project 'Shaping Spaces at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology,' our Faculty held workshop classes for the students of 3F from the General Secondary School No. 2  in Malbork.

Students from the 6th semester, working on the topic "Urban Bathing Area in Bytów" as part of the Elective Project III, participated in a study trip to Bytów. Our students were invited to Bytów by the city architect, Mr. Leszek Neubauer.

The visit began in the City Council Hall at the City Hall, where the students met with the city authorities. Afterwards, they conducted a site visit at Lake Jeleń, the location where they will conduct further studies and propose new architectural solutions for this site.

On March 31, 2025, a group of 6th-semester students took part in a training session for architects organized by the eduArch team at the Collegia dormitory. The main theme of the training was universal design and the design of educational spaces. At the end of the session, participants had the opportunity to hear about the dormitory project from architect Joanna Wojtas, one of the co-designers of the building. The initiative for attending the training was taken by PhD. DSc. Eng. Arch. Piotr Marczak and PhD. DSc. Eng. Arch. Elżbieta Marczak.

On April 5, 2025, the exhibition „Czerwień”: Obrazy (eng. “Red”: Paintings) opened at the Dom Zarazy in Oliwa.

Last year, we informed that three of our students qualified for the finals of the PRIX SARPFR 2024 competition (a contest for the best engineering theses organized by the Association of Polish Architects in France). Among them was Alicja Kaźmieczak's project "The Flower of Kalsa – a cultural center for the Kalsa district in Palermo." For her project, she received the First Prize from the Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Architects, a honourable mention from SARP, and a special mention in the aforementioned PRIX SARPFR 2024 competition.

Mrs. Danuta Olędzka was associated with TriCity for most of her life. In 1952, she obtained a Master's degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology. From 1952 to 1965, she worked as an assistant at the Department of Utility and Industrial Construction at our Faculty. The following year, she began working as a designer at the Gdańsk Office of General Construction Design, where she worked until 1982.

Professor Maria Jolanta Sołtysik has received the Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Medal "For Outstanding Contributions to Gdynia." An architect associated with the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology, she contributed to the promotion of Gdynia’s architecture and urban planning in Poland and Europe. She created the theoretical foundations for the protection of modernist heritage in Gdynia.