!!!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.

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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.

!Literature
A. Gleiner, Szyszkowitz und Kowalski, 1994; R. Ilsinger 
(ed.), Raeume und Freiraeume, 1999.


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