Jakub
Szczęsny
DESIGNER
He is the first Polish architect whose project, Keret House, was included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He designs both unique single-family buildings and prefabrication systems for brands such as Simple House, FreeDOM Houses and My Barn. Working at the interface between architecture and art and designing installations for public spaces around the world plays an important role in his practice.
He is also involved in popularising architecture, writing scripts for television programmes such as “Polska dobrze zaprojektowana” (TVN), “Stadiony atakują” (Domo+), as well as appearing in sponsored content programmes such as “Design dream” for IKEA (Polsat). He is a guest lecturer at foreign universities such as GSAPP, FAU, Bezalel School of Architecture, and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology. The author and originator of the AlterEgo collection, who invited 10 Polish designers, designers and interior architects to create it. The collection won the award in the Best Polish Design category of the Good Design 2024 competition.