Zofia Garlińska-Hansen
Zofia Aleksandra Garlińska-Hansen (13 May 1924 - 24 January 2013) was a Polish architect and co-author of the Open Form Theory (1957) as well as the Linear Continuous System (1967) with her husband, Oskar Nikolai Hansen. Zofia and Oskar worked together, producing architectural theory and built works primarily through the 1950’s and 1960’s. Early life Zofia Garlińska-Hansen was born 13 May 1924 in Kałuszyn, Poland. Little is known of her family, other than that her father, Tadeusz Garliński, was a schoolteacher. She studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology under the proponent of modernism Romuald Gutt, Romauld Gutt. She met her future husband and co-designer Oskar Hansen while at university, who was also studying architecture at the time. They married in 1950 and she graduated in 1952. Theory Open Form Theory Zofia is the co-author of Open Form Theory with Oskar, the most important school of thought in Polish Modern architectur ...
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