Kowalski, Karla#

b. Bytom, Poland (then Beuthen), Jan. 28, 1941, architect. 1962-1968 studies at the Technical University in Darmstadt and at the AASA London, 1969-1971 employed at Behnisch & Partner, where she contributed to the design of the Munich Olympic buildings. Since 1978 has had a joint studio with M. Szyszkowitz, since 1988 university professor in Stuttgart. Exponent of the "Graz School". Her designs are characterised by organic expressivity and extreme spaciousness with metaphorical allusions.

Works (with M. Szyszkowitz): Hauswirtschaftsschule (home economics school) Grosslobming, 1978-1981; Waldbauernschule (forest owners school) Schloss Pichl, 1982-1984; housing estate Alte Poststrasse Graz-Eggenburg, 1982-1984; housing estate Eisbach-Rein, 1984-1986; parish church centre Graz-Raggnitz, 1984-1987; buildings of the Departments of Biochemistry at the University of Graz, 1985-1991; exhibition of the province of Styria "Hexen und Zauberer", Riegersburg, 1987; department store Kastner & Oehler, 1989-1995 and from 2001 (renovation and extension); housing estate Schiessstaette, Graz, 1997-1999; study centre of the Graz University of Technology, 1998-2000 (all in Styria), housing estate international building exhibition Emscher Park, Gelsenkirchen, 1990-1995; office building Buerohaus am Stadtpark, Nuernberg, 1999ff.

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