Agnieszka Kurkowska

Biography

Agnieszka Kurkowska is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Gdańsk University of Technology since 2020. In 2010, she obtained a doctorate from the Gdańsk University of Technology, of which she is graduated. Since 2000, she has been a member of POIA RP. In the years 2013-2020 she worked at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Koszalin University of Technology, for many years as the head of the Department of Interior Architecture. Winner of the awards of the Rector of the Koszalin University of Technology for scientific and organizational work.
She is the author of scientific monographs and many articles and chapters in multi-author monographs. She has acted as a curator of art exhibitions several times. She participated in many individual and collective exhibitions, including foreign ones, presenting works in the field of architecture, photography, sculpture and painting. Originator and co-organizer of several scientific conferences, including international ones. Initiator of many activities in the field of general architectural education as part of cooperation with various cultural institutions in Gdańsk. In this field, she is the author of books for children and youth as part of the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk. Initiator of several art and design competitions, including international ones. She collaborated with teaching and research centers in Belarus, Ukraine, Germany and Spain.
As an architect, she has many years of professional design and execution practice. Participant in numerous national architectural, graphic and photo competitions (including distinguished and awarded projects). Author and co-author of many conceptual, construction and executive designs of residential, service and sacral architectural buildings, complexes of residential buildings with elements of small architecture and green areas, as well as interior designs and elements of architectural facilities equipment.
In research and artistic activities, she deals with the relationship between the creator and the recipient taking place through an architectural object. It is an aspect of designing and the existence of spatial structures close to its sensitivity and understanding of the architect's mission. He also devotes a lot of attention to the issue of the process of living and the broadly understood issue of the house, also in the regional perspective related to Kashubia
Architecture is for her a challenge, passion, responsibility, a creative sense of freedom and difficult compromises of implementing ideas in the existing social and physical space. It also is a record of thoughts, it is a message conveyed to the recipient, it is a unique spatial creation. It is the realization of an idea subjected to a graphic record, and then spatial transformations and their physical occurrence.