ABOUT

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Gintaras BALČYTIS, architect

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1980–1985  Architecture education in Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute, Faculty of Architecture

1985–1991  Planing  Institute „Žemprojektas“ in Kaunas, architect  

since 1993  Architecture office „Dviejų Grupė“, founding partner, chief architect  

since 2008  Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Professor

since 2013  Founder of Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe), organizer and currator of KAF2013, KAFe2016, KAFe2019, KAFe2022

since 2023  The President of Architects Association of Lithuania

2025  Curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 19^th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia,

AWARDS

Title ‘Architect of the Year’ / Pilotas.lt (2025)

The Baltic Award for Sustainability in Architecture, Construction, Design 2024, Riga, Latvia –  1st. place. (2024)

Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts (2020)

Lithuanian Government’s Prize for Culture and Art (2018)

Ministry of Environment Award for the best building of the year (2018)

Title ‘The Most Memorable Artist in Kaunas’ (2018)

Title ‘Architect of the Year’ / Pilotas.lt (2017)

Lithuanian Architecture Exhibition “Introspection” awards METRE 1/5:

Vilkaviškis Bus Station(2020),   Military baracks in Šančiai (2003) 

EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe award nominations:

Vilkaviškis Bus Station (2021), Kaunas Bus Station (2019),  Vila in Kačerginė (2013)

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