The Vilnius Academy of Arts was founded in 1793 with the Insitute of Architecture. In addition, other institutes were added over the years, including Painting and Drawing, Fine Arts and Art History (order chronologically). The institutes were located in Kaunas and Vilnius. They were administered separately until 1940 when the government of the Lithuanian SSR merged them into the State Art Institute and more departments were added. Graphic arts, textiles or architectural composition and design were taught at the Academy of Arts. Lithuania’s independence in 1990 allowed the Vilnius and Kaunas campuses to regain their self-government. They renamed themselves “Vilnius Academy of Arts” and “Kaunas Art Institute”.

Graduates: Eliana Niyole Buchute, Brigita Adomonienė, Alina Samukienė
Employees: Brigita Adomonienė

Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) / Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas (VDU) / Университет Витаутаса Великого (УВВ)

The liberal-oriented university was founded in 1922 and named after Grand Duke Vytautas Magnus. Since Vilnius was part of the Polish administration at that time, the university has its seat in Kaunas. Initially, the University of Lithuania had few faculties of general studies, such as medicine, humanities and law. After two closures and reopenings, associated with the Soviet occupation and interim German occupation, the university was finally restored under its name in 1989 according to its liberal guiding principle. The university stands for academic freedom and is known for its humanistic orientation.

Graduates: Apolonja Nisteliene

Institute for Mining Design, Litproekt

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Employees: Eliana Niyole Buchute 

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) / Vilnius Engineering and Construction Institute / Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute (VISI)

After the establishment of the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute in autumn 1956 , urban planning became a faculty in 1968. A year later the department separated to become the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute (Vilniaus inžinerinis statybos institutas) and in 1971 the Faculty of Architecture was added. The restoration of Lithuania brought the Western European structures of education to the university. The VISI became the Vilnius Technical University (VTU).

Graduates: Valerija Ema Cukermanienė, Neringos Dičiuvienės, Algė Regina Jankevičienė, Jūratė Juozaitienė, Audronė Kaušpėdienė, Jūratė Račkauskienė, Lygija Stapulionienė, Liucija Zaveckienė

Employees: Neringos Dičiuvienės

Experimental Furniture Design and Construction Bureau / Experimental Design Office of the Ministry of Furniture and Wood Processing Industry of the Lithuanian SSR

In 1957, the Office of Furniture Design and Construction was founded in Vilnius to follow the developments of modernism. From 1959 it was renamed to Experimental Design Office of the National Economic Council. The focus of the ten to twenty employees was on designing standardized furniture for mass production in the Lithuanian furniture industry. Special orders for unique furniture for representative public interiors of the Lithuanian SSR and foreign orders for furniture for Soviet diplomatic missions were carried out, too.

Employees: Brigita Adomonienė, Lygija Stapulionienė, Liucija Zaveckienė

Vilnius Construction Trust

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Employees: Liucija Zaveckienė

Urban Design Institute (Miestų statybos projektavimo institutas – MSPI)

The Urban Design Institute was responsible for urban planning and development during the Soviet era. It was supposed to design the cities of the Lithuanian SSR according to the principles of Soviet modernism. Besides Vilnius, the headquarter of the institute, there are branches of the institute in Kaunas, among others.

Employees: Neringos Dičiuvienės

Lithuanian Research Institute of Architecture and Construction

A state scientific institution located in Kaunas. It was founded in 1956 on the basis of the restructuring of the Institute of Physics and Technology. The institute is engaged in research of everything related to construction and architecture from history to development and technologies.

Employees: Algė Regina Jankevičienė

Institute for Monument Restoration

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Employees: Alina Samukienė