Piotr Lorens
Gdańsk City Architect, Gdańsk City, Head of the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology, urban planner
Prof. Piotr Lorens - Ph.D., DSc., urban planner. Gdańsk City Architect; Head of the Department of Urban Design and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology. Completed post-graduate studies (as a Fulbright Fellow) at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His professional interests include urban planning and regeneration processes, focusing on waterfront areas and public spaces. Active as a guest lecturer and visiting professor at numerous universities and conducting a professional career focusing on planning and managing urban regeneration projects. For many years involved in planning for the regeneration of the Young City in Gdansk - the large-scale urban project located on the site of the former Gdansk shipyard. Associated with international and Polish organizations: ICOMOS, TICCIH, ISOCARP, and Society of Polish Town Planners. Since 2020 – a member of the Committee of Architecture and Urbanism and since 2012 – of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning, Polish Academy of Sciences