KWK Promes architecture studio is an architecture firm founded by Robert Konieczny in 1999, based in Katowice, Poland. In 2007, KWK Promes was selected as one of the 44 best practices of young architects by 'Scalae'. That same year, 'Wallpaper' named Konieczny's work one of the 101 most exciting studios in the world. In 2008, he participated in 'European 40 Under 40', organized by the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum.
Robert Konieczny is an architect, a graduate of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. In 1996, he received a certificate from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 2012, he became an independent expert for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. Robert Konieczny has been nominated eight times for the European Mies van der Rohe Award. He has also received the prestigious House of the Year 2006 award, with his Aatrial House project as the best project in a competition organized by World Architecture News.
