Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak
*29. 10. 1920 – Tarnawce, Poland
†4. 6. 2018 – Wrocław, Poland
Biography
Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak was a Polish architect primarily active in Wrocław, where she graduated as the first woman at the local technical university in 1950. From 1951, she worked at the design studio Miastoprojekt Wrocław, which she later led from 1963 to 1981. In the 1980s, she established her own design office. In 1974, she received an honorary award from the Polish Association of Architects SARP, considered the highest architectural honor in Poland. She attributes her success after the period of state-imposed socialist realism to her constant interest in architectural developments abroad. Her early work falls within the realm of post-war or late modernism; in the 1960s, she increasingly drew inspiration from the works of brutalists and metabolists, and from the late 1970s onwards, influences of critical regionalism became evident in her buildings.
Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak was a Polish architect primarily active in Wrocław, where she graduated as the first woman at the local technical university in 1950. From 1951, she worked at the design studio Miastoprojekt Wrocław, which she later led from 1963 to 1981. In the 1980s, she established her own design office. In 1974, she received an honorary award from the Polish Association of Architects SARP, considered the highest architectural honor in Poland. She attributes her success after the period of state-imposed socialist realism to her constant interest in architectural developments abroad. Her early work falls within the realm of post-war or late modernism; in the 1960s, she increasingly drew inspiration from the works of brutalists and metabolists, and from the late 1970s onwards, influences of critical regionalism became evident in her buildings.
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