Marta Ingarden

Marta Ingarden
Born
Marta Bińkowska

8 September 1921
Lviv
Died18 January 2009
Kraków, Poland
Alma materLviv Polytechnic, Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology
Occupation(s)Architect, engineer

Marta Ingarden (born Marta Bińkowska 8 September 1921 – 18 January 2009) was a Polish and Ukrainian architect and engineer.

Early life

Ingarden was born on 8 September 1921 in Lviv. She graduated from the Queen Jadwiga Gymnasium and Secondary School in Lviv in 1939. She began her studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic, which she was able to continue during the Nazi occupation of Poland from September 1939.

In 1945, Ingarden began her studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politechniki Krakowskiej, which she completed in 1948.[1][2]

Career

Following graduation, she took up a job as a designer in the Construction Office of the Coal Industry in Kraków, then in the Directorate of Workers' Housing Estates, and from 1 January 1950 in the Central Office of Projects and Studies of Housing Estates ZOR for the city of Nowa Huta.[2][1]

Together with her husband Janusz Ingarden, Ingarden designed and supervised the construction of many buildings in Nowa Huta. Among them the Chamber Theatre, (for the unrealised Nowa Huta Theatre), and buildings S and Z of the Lenin Steelworks Administration Centre.

In 1957, alongside her husband Janusz, Ingarden received the second degree award for the design of the "experimental building" in the B-32 housing estate, now the Szklane Domy housing estate. Her projects include Nowa Huta, Ludowy Theatre, and Osiedle Szklane Domy[3][4][5][6][7]/

Personal life

Marta Ingarden died on 18 January 2009 in Kraków and her funeral took place on 24 January 2009 at the Salwator Cemetery.[1]

  • Block of flats, Nowa Huta, 1957
    Block of flats, Nowa Huta, 1957
  • Block of flats, Szwedzki
    Block of flats, Szwedzki
  • Hotel Forum Kraków
    Hotel Forum Kraków

References

  1. ^ a b c "Nowa Huta - architektura i twórcy miasta idealnego. Niezrealizowane projekty" Wydawnictwo Muzeum Historycznego Miasta Krakowa 2005
  2. ^ a b "Ingarden Marta. Polska Niezwykła". www.polskaniezwykla.pl. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  3. ^ "Ingarden, Marta - Witamy na stronie Krakowskiego Szlaku Modernizmu - SzlakModernizmu.PL" (in Polish). 2021-04-17. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  4. ^ "In memoriam - Pamięci Architektów Polskich - Marta Ingarden". www.inmemoriam.architektsarp.pl. Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  5. ^ "Marta Ingarden" (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-10-21.
  6. ^ Lebow, Katherine A. (2013-06-12). Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-6885-8.
  7. ^ Glendinning, Miles (2021-03-25). Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4742-2928-9.