Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak was born 1920 in Tarnawce, Poland. 1945 she began to study architecture at the faculty in Wrocław and was the first woman there with a diploma of architecture. With the Studio Miastoprojekt, a team of a few architects and planners, she began with the planning of the reconstruction of the old town in Wrocław 1949. The reconstruction of the center was more important than the planning and developing of other areas in the city. In the time of socialist realism, one of her first projects was the reconstruction and restauration of two old buildings on the Rynek in Wrocław, a market square of the middle ages. The work began in 1954. After the residential building area, Kościuszko 36-46, she planned with three other architects, the style of the architecture in Poland changed 1956, at this point buildings were planned under the socialist modernism. 1967-1973, she planned the famous towers of the
Grundwaldzki Square. After the project in the economic crisis she was not able to realise further building projects and for several years her plans haven’t been implemented.

She won a lot of national architecture contests, but only one project was built: the Millennium Memorial Church of the Wrocław Diocese. She also became a professor at the university in Wroclaw. 2018 she died in Poland.