Karla Kowalski

Karla Kowalski (* 1941 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia ) is a German architect and university professor .

Live and act

She studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt architecture and worked while studying at Georges Candilis , Josic and Shadrach Woods in Paris. In 1968 she completed postgraduate studies at the Architectural Association School in London .

From 1969 to 1971 she worked at Behnisch & Partner in Munich on the Olympic buildings . There she got to know Michael Szyszkowitz , who also worked on the Olympic buildings - but with Günther Domenig & Eilfried Huth . From 1973 she finally worked with Michael Szyszkowitz and founded the joint office Szyszkowitz-Kowalski with him in his hometown Graz in 1978 .

From 1971 to 1972 Kowalski had a lectureship on topography and design at the Kassel University and was appointed director of the Institute for Public Buildings and Design at the University of Stuttgart in 1988 . She held this professorship until 2003. She has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1993, and in 1998 she became a member of the Academie internationale d'Architecture , Sofia.

In addition to working as an architect, Karla Kowalski forms animal sculptures and creates landscape drawings, which have been shown in several exhibitions.

Exhibitions

• “Monster”, Kowalski's animals with frames by Szyszkowitz, Aedes Architecture Forum , Berlin, December 1996
• Karla Kowalski's “Monster” with frames by Michael Szyszkowitz, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag , Mürzzuschlag, June 2001

Fonts

In addition to numerous publications in the field of architecture, the sculptures and drawings were also published:

• Werner Durth (Ed.): Monsters and other truths / Monsters and other truths. (with essays by Manfred Sack , Werner Durth, Frank Werner, Karin Wilhelm) jovis Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-936314-62-4 .
• Aedes East (Ed.): Monster. Kowalski's animals with frames by Szyszkowitz. (with an introduction by Walter Jens ) Berlin 1996.

Web links

• Homepage Szyszkowitz-Kowalski + Partner ZT GmbH
• Szyszkowitz-Kowalski Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
• Homepage Karla Kowalski . Monsters and other truths.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aedes East
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3. ↑ Publications