JEMS Architekci

JEMS Architekci is a Warsaw architecture studio founded in 1988, at a moment of democratic change in Poland, by a team that had already been working together since the early 1980s. Eight partners form the core of the practice, which runs on an office-workshop model where the whole staff takes part in the discussion of each project.

The work is deliberately unspectacular: massing, material, light and proportion rather than form for its own sake, with each project read through the culture and history of its place. Projects include the Koszyki Market Hall and the Warsaw Brewery regeneration, the Planet Lem media library, the Polish Embassy in Berlin, and large urban schemes such as Towarowa 22.