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Architect
Elina Amann, last edited on 10.10.2022
Name:
Jūratė Juozaitienė
Life Dates:
b. 1953
Country:
Employers:
Institute for Building Planning (1976-1979)
Department of Perspective Problems of the Lithuanian Research Institute of Construction and Architecture (1979-1997)
Field of expertise:
Architectural Design, interior design
Education:
Awards:
Prize for the best interior design project of the year (Audronė Fashion Salon)
Jūratė Juozaitienė was born on 31 July 1953 in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
After graduating in architecture from the Vilnius Engineering Construction Institute in 1976, she became an architect at the Institute of Building Design. After her employment, she specialised in research on the development of Lithuanian industrial architecture, while working as a research associate at the Lithuanian Research Institute of Construction and Architecture from 1979 to 1997.
At the end of her research work, she opened an independent architecture and design office called Vila.
Her first works are the Jonava sports complex and the Pasvalys Savings Bank. In addition, her interior design project for the Audronė fashion salon received the award for the best of the year of its kind. Another project of Juozaitienė is the hotel “Kaunas”, for which she worked out a reconstruction. She received the award for the best reconstruction project of this year. After the awarded projects, the architect specialised in reconstructions. She worked on the reconstruction of shopping centres and individual shops (e.g. Laisvės Avenue in Kaunas), as well as residential buildings and hotels in Vilnius, Kaunas and Tauragė.
Main image: By Lietuvos Respublikos vyriausioji rinkimų komisija, https://lt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=298788 (last accessed on 10.10.2022)
Fig. 1: By Pagulbi74, CC 1.0-License (public domain) File:Jonava Arena 4494.JPG – Wikimedia Commons (last accessed on 10.10.2022)
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