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Architect, preservationist
Elina Amann, last edited on 11.10.2022
Name:
Alina Samukienė
Life Dates:
b. 1940
Country:
Employers:
Institute for the Restoration of Monuments (1974 – 1994)
Company “Archivoltas A. Samukienės” (since 1997)
Field of expertise:
Architectural design, historic preservation
Education:
Kaunas Art Institute (1964)
Alina Samukienė is a Lithuanian architect who worked on restoring historic cultural buildings. She was born in Kaunas on 22 August 1940 and attended the Lithuanian Art Institute in Kaunas. Samukienė graduated in architecture in 1964. In her second year of teaching, she married her fellow student Fridrikas Jonas Samukas – a well-known Lithuanian cartoonist.
She worked as a project-managing restorer at the Institute for Monument Restoration in Vilnius from 1974 to 1994. Afterwards she started her own business and founded the company Archivoltas A. Samukienės (later: Archivoltas) in 1997. She received the status of monument expert and has been a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) since 2007.
Already during her work at the Institute for Monument Restoration, Samukienė participated in important restoration projects in Vilnius. The reconstructions were used to adapt the buildings for social organisations and to create guest houses. The Carmelite Monastery and Lateran Canon Monastery in Vilnius were restored under her participation. Later, the architect became responsible for the renovation of buildings at Vilnius University. Projects of reconstruction of buildings of the Faculty of History in 2007, as well as the Faculty of Philology in 2009-2011, were one of the last important works in her own company Archivoltas, along with the restoration of Plateriai Palace, which took place in 2018.
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