Marta Mnich (1979), architect

2003- graduated from Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Technology / 2003-2008 practice as leading architect in Mackow Pracownia Projektowa, Wroclaw / 2006- established VROA ARCHITECTS / 2007- DOIA member / 2008- ARB UK member / 2009 Young Architect Title during Regional Architecture Review BAZA

AWARDS

2002 2nd prize in student competition for dormitories extension, Wroclaw / 2003 3rd prize in national competition for Music Theater, Wroclaw / 2004 honorable mention in national competition for social housing, Czestochowa / 2006 3rd prize for Retail Center FERIO in implementation competition Beautiful Wroclaw /  2006 runner up in international competition for housing estate Europan 8, Milton Keynes / 2007 1st prize in competition for restaurant pavilion extension by Centennial Hall, Wroclaw  /  2011 honorable mention in competion for office building Atmoterm in Opole / 2011 1 st prize for convention center in implementation competition Beautiful Wroclaw / 2011 2nd prize in competition for WUWA area in Wroclaw

Lukasz Wojciechowski (1978), architect

2003- graduated from Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Technology / 2003- tutor and lecturer: architectural design classes, conferences and workshops / 2003- correspondent for Architektura-murator and A&B / 2005- correspondent for A10 magazine New European Architecture  / 2006- established VROA ARCHITECTS / 2009 Young Architect Title during Regional Architecture Review BAZA / 2011 Ph.D. at Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Technology

AWARDS

2002 2nd prize in student competition for dormitories extension, Wroclaw / 2003 3rd prize in national competition for sports hall (with studio fold), Bierun / 2004 honorable mention in national competition for social housing, Czestochowa / 2006 runner up in international competition for housing estate Europan 8, Milton Keynes / 2007 2nd prize in competition for sports hall, Dzierzoniow / 2007 1st prize in competition for restaurant pavilion extension by Centennial Hall, Wroclaw / 2007 2nd prize in competition for University of Technology Library, Wroclaw / 2011 honorable mention in competion for office building Atmoterm in Opole / 2011 1st prize for convention center in implementation competition Beautiful Wroclaw / 2011 2nd prize in competition for WUWA area in Wroclaw

Magdalena Szwajcowska (1983), architect

2009- graduated from Faculty of Architecture, Wroclaw University of Technology / 2007 internship at SeARCH, Amsterdam / 2008 internship at Work AC, New York / 2009- joins VROA ARCHITECTS team

AWARDS

2009 diploma project awarded in competition in the name of Malgorzata Baczko and Piotr Zakrzewski / 2010 Honorable Mention in the What's Bubbling Redefining Dining Design Competition, Chicago, IL / 2011 First Prize in the What's Bubbling Redefining Dining Design Competition, Chicago, IL

Agnieszka Halas (1990), architecture student

VROA office is located near Grunwaldzki Square, city's academic center. This is the place where various ideas on the city collide. XIX century fabric is overlayed with modular modern grid, which closes the Social Realist axis of the University campus. During period of Festung Breslau in 1945 there was an airfield built in front of our windows replacing vivid square blocks. VROA ARCHITEKCI, ul. Nauczycielska 8/4.

Projects by VROA have been published by architectural magazines like Architektura-Murator, Architektura&Biznes, Archiwolta and Architecture Today and Building Design. Apart from these Lukasz (together with Roman Rutkowski) have contributed to A10 New European Architecture as a Polish correspondent since 2005, the theoretical texts by them both appeared in Architectural Design and Era 21. Lukasz is also the editor of small book on Wroclaw's late modern architecture "Fast & Young".

Our lectures include presentations of VROA projects and our interpretations of theory and history of architectutre. We present references for our work that we find in contemporary art and film... We are not interested in formal issues but operational potentials (not exacly functional in Modern sense) of architecture. We ask ourselves questions about basics of building. Our lectures took place in Leipzig, Katowice, Nurnberg, Cracow, Warsaw and Wroclaw... More on ERASMUS DESIGN.