This event will be conducted in-person in room 315F and through Zoom.

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Architect Karolina Czeczek and photographer Anna Morgowicz will present an ongoing project, Public Pools, which explores the history, architectural form, and social and cultural significance of swimming pools in New York City. Through detailed drawings and photographs, the project highlights five distinct pool types, pairing each with a speculative design or programmatic proposal that amplifies the potential of existing civic infrastructure and promotes bathing culture.

This event is being held in conjunction with an exhibition in the Third Floor Hallway Gallery.

Karolina Czeczek is an architect and Principal at Only If, a New York City-based design practice for architecture and urbanism. Only If’s projects span a range of different types and scales, from single- and multiple-family housing to larger-scale urban planning, research, and speculation.

Karolina is also a Critic at the Yale School of Architecture and has previously taught design studios at the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, the University of Kentucky, Pratt Institute, and the University of Cincinnati.

She previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and Hong Kong. Karolina is a Fulbright Scholar who holds two master’s degrees in architecture and urban design, from Yale University and the Cracow University of Technology, and is a registered architect in the Netherlands and Poland.

Anna Morgowicz is a New York–based photographer working across architecture, interiors, and still life. Her work spans commissioned projects and long-term photographic research focused on the built environment and public space, typologies, and everyday objects as interconnected systems of contemporary life.

She holds a BFA in Photography from the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, an MA in Sociology from the University of Wrocław, and an MPS in Photography from School of Visual Arts. She also studied at the International Center of Photography and interned at Magnum Photos. In 2019, she documented postwar modern architecture in Wrocław for the book Całe Morze Budowania by Dr. Agata Gabiś, published by the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Poland.

 She collaborates with architects, designers, and cultural institutions, and her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, Citygroup gallery, Syracuse University School of Architecture, and Milk Gallery, among others.

 Anna is represented by Esto Photographics.

 This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.