• Izabela Malachowska-Coqui

    Guest Speaker, Coqui Malachowska Coqui

    Izabela Malachowska-Coqui

    Guest Speaker, Coqui Malachowska Coqui

    Biography

    POSITION

    Company co-owner COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI Städtebau Landschaftsarchitektur Berlin/Warszawa

    PRESENTATION

    BE COOL – KEEP WATER
    Green roofs and facades – Institute of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin an innovative alternative for conventional air conditioning technologies

    AWARDS

    2015 INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY AWARD for project Edge House, with Mobius architects
    2015 1st price ex aequo- House on the water – residential use, Berlin with O&O Baukunst
    2015 2nd price – German Embassy in Cairo with BESS ARCHITEKTEN
    2014 1st price – Children and youth recreation center in Alt-Buchhorst
    2014 CIVIC TRUST AWARD 2014 for Metropol Parasol, Plaza de Encarnacion, Sevilla, with Juergen Mayer H.
    2013 nomination – MIES VAN DER ROHE PREIS 2015 – project Edge Houss, with Mobius architekci
    2013 2nd price – International, open competition – Garden of XXIst century – Lazienki Park in Warsaw, with KKM
    Kozień Architekci
    2013 1st price – Renovation and conversion of the post office Geisbergstraße in Berlin for residential and commercial use, with O&O Baukunst

    BIOGRAPHY

    *1968, landscape architect, Landscape Architecture at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW)
    since 2002 partner of COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI Städtebau Landschaftsarchitektur (urban design and landscape architecture), Berlin/Warsaw
    1997-1998 project leader at Prof. J.Peters Landscape Architecture Office in Berlin/Germany
    since 1993 own office for planning and building in Warsaw/Poland

    since 2013 curator of the international conference Warsaw Architecture Talks (www.wra.org.pl)
    in 2004 representative of Poland at the IXth International Biennale of Architecture in Venice
    In 1998 representative of Poland at the 1st International Biennale of Lanscape architecture in Barcelona

    COQUI MALACHOWSKA COQUI Städtebau Landschaftsarchitektur is doing projects and conducting research between the poles of urban design and country planning as well as architecture and freespaces. In an holistic approach the project work and the research are coined by interdisciplinary work with other disciplines, first of all architecture. The products of the office are understood as unique, contemporary, intentional cultural contributions to our environment with a certain relation to the historical background of the society they are produced for.

    Main competition successes: Plaza de Encarnacion, Sevilla,1st prize A: Jürgen Mayer H. (Holcim Award 2005- 3rd prize. Bronze), Hotel van der Valk, Düsseldorf, 1st prize A: Ortner&Ortner, Theatre and Bank square. Warsaw, 2nd place.

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