Olga Chrzanowska Ph.D., B.Eng., Arch.

I hold a PhD from Lodz Univresity of Technology 2023, on Changing Attitudes Toward Architectural History in the Mid-twentieth Century in the United States of America, A Comparative Study of the Architects Louis I. Kahn and Robert Venturi.

Fulbright Junior Research Award. 
I won the Fulbright Junior Research Award 2019/2020 Scholarship at the History of Art Department of University of Pennsylvania in the USA. During this stay I had a chance to work intensively on my grant and PhD thesis and had the wonderful support of specialists from various academic and cultural institutions such as MoMA. The grant supported my development as a researcher and helped deepen my understanding of American architectural culture and its history.

Humanities+Urbanism+Design Initiative sponsored by Mellon Foundation.
I was also invited as a guest member to Humanities+Urbanism+Design Initiative sponsored by Mellon Foundation at University of Pennsylvania for academic year 2019/2020 where with group of twenty scholars we discussed issues concerning cities — past, present and future — examining them at the intersection of the humanities and design disciplines and sharing research through teaching, conference participation, and publication.

Contemporary avant-garde design methods and P3 Parametric Pavilion Workshops.
I originated the workshops for students, gathered internal and external funding and managed to organize the design and construction process of urban intervention. The result was a meeting place under a Polish first large scale wooden parametric pavilion, in a shape of futuristic umbrella that was designed and build by students in little less than a month on Lodz University of Technology campus and awarded an exhibition at the Lodz Design Festival 2013.