Marta Ingarden
Marta Ingarden (born Marta Bińkowska 8 September 1921 – 18 January 2009) was a Polish architect and engineer.
Also recorded as Marta Bińkowska
Marta Ingarden

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- Name
- Marta Ingarden
- Birth Name
- Marta Bińkowska
- Born
- 8 September 1921
- Birthplace
- Lviv
- Died
- 18 January 2009
- Place of death
- Kraków, Poland
- Education
- Lviv Polytechnic, Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology
- Occupation
- Architect, engineer
- Full name
- Marta Bińkowska.
- Nationality
- Poland.
- Languages
- Polish.
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• Name — Marta Ingarden • Birth Name — Marta Bińkowska • Born — 8 September 1921 • Birthplace — Lviv • Died — 18 January 2009 • Place of death — Kraków, Poland • Education — Lviv Polytechnic, Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology • Occupation — Architect, engineer
Early life
Early life
Ingarden was born on 8 September 1921 in Lviv (then in Poland). She graduated from the Queen Jadwiga Gymnasium and Secondary School in Lviv in 1939. She began her studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Lviv Polytechnic, which she was able to continue also during the Soviet occupation of Lviv from September 1939. In 1945, Ingarden began her studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Politechnika Krakowska, which she completed in 1948.
Career
Career
Following graduation, she took up a job as a designer in the Construction Office of the Coal Industry in Kraków, then in the Directorate of Workers' Housing Estates, and from 1 January 1950 in the Central Office of Projects and Studies of Housing Estates ZOR for the city of Nowa Huta. Together with her husband Janusz Ingarden, Ingarden designed and supervised the construction of many buildings in Nowa Huta. Among them the Chamber Theatre, (for the unrealised Nowa Huta Theatre), and buildings S and Z of the Lenin Steelworks Administration Centre. In 1957, alongside her husband Janusz, Ingarden received the second degree award for the design of the "experimental building" in the B-32 housing estate, now the Szklane Domy housing estate. Her projects include Nowa Huta, Ludowy Theatre, and Osiedle Szklane Domy /
Personal life
Personal life
Marta Ingarden died on 18 January 2009 in Kraków and her funeral took place on 24 January 2009 at the Salwator Cemetery.
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• Illustration — Ludowy Theatre, Nowa Huta, 1955 • Illustration — "Szwedzki" block of flats, Nowa Huta, 1957 • Illustration — Hotel Forum Kraków, 1978
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Marta Ingarden was recorded at birth as Marta Bińkowska. The authorities additionally record the heading Marta Bińkowska. Her recorded language was Polish. She married Janusz Ingarden. Other recorded relations include Roman Ingarden, Roman Stanisław Ingarden and Krzysztof Ingarden.
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Identity
Marta Ingarden is recorded with the occupation architect. Recorded as architect and engineer.

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1921
Marta Ingarden was born on 8 September 1921.
2009
Marta Ingarden died on 18 January 2009.
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- 1."Nowa Huta - architektura i twórcy miasta idealnego. Niezrealizowane projekty" Wydawnictwo Muzeum Historycznego Miasta Krakowa 2005
- 2.Ingarden Marta. Polska Niezwykła. www.polskaniezwykla.pl.
- 3.Ingarden, Marta - Witamy na stronie Krakowskiego Szlaku Modernizmu - SzlakModernizmu.PL. 2021-04-17.
- 4.In memoriam - Pamięci Architektów Polskich - Marta Ingarden. www.inmemoriam.architektsarp.pl.
- 5.Marta Ingarden.
- 6.Lebow, Katherine A. Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949–56. Cornell University Press. 2013-06-12. 978-0-8014-6885-8.
- 7.Glendinning, Miles. Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2021-03-25. 978-1-4742-2928-9.
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