08.2025

“Beyond summer: designing NYC’s public pools for year-round use” article is featured on the Culture of Bathing substack.

07.31-09.06.2025

Public Pools exhibition featuring pool typologies, photographs by Anna Morgowicz and speculative design proposals by Karolina Czeczek is open at the Citygroup in New York City.

Summer 2024

Selected public pools in New York City are photographed by Anna Morgowicz.

10.2023

Karolina Czeczek is a recipient of 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant sponsored by the Architectural League of New York and NYSCA (New York State Council for the Arts). The grant project aims to create a speculative architectural and programmatic proposals for the future of public pools in New York City.

07.2023 

Karolina Czeczek and Anna Morgowicz presents public-pools at Gretel.

09.2023


Anna Morgowicz photographs of Public Pools are exhibited at the ASLANY Climate Action Forum

“HEAT(ED)”.




08.2023

Kosciuszko Pool is featured in a video by Hudson Lines, commisioned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

02.2023
“The People’s Pool” - Only If’s design proposal for renovation of the Kosciuszko Pool is featured in the Architecture Now: New York, New Publics exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The installation includes a model, drawing, photographs by Anna Morgowicz and a film by Hudson Lines.

Summer 2022
Selected public pools in New York City are photographed by Anna Morgowicz.

Fall 2022
Karolina Czeczek taught a core design studio on expanding WPA era public pools at Pratt School of Architecture and in collaboration with NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.

07.2022
“Landscapes of Leisure” article about Kosciuszko Pool is published in PLOT landscape architecture journal.

10.2021
Karolina Czeczek presents public-pools for the “CITY/HALL: Collective Equipment for Living” studio at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

10.2021
Karolina Czeczek presents public-pools in the Aqua Infrastructure symposium at the Pratt School of Architecture.

08.2021
Karolina Czeczek presents “Exploring Pools as a Lens to the Water System” for the NYC H2O.

08.2021
“Withdrawn Waters” article is publised at Urban Omnibus as part of the pool mini series, and co-authored with New York Review of Architecture (NYRA) editors A. L. Hu and Nicolas Kemper.

07.2021
“Why Does New York No Longer Build Public Pools?” co-authored with A.L. Hu and Nicolas Kemper is published in Issue #21 of the New York Review of Architecture (NYRA).

07.2021
“Swim Lessons” article is publised at Urban Omnibus as part of the pool mini series.

05.2021
“Undercurrents” article is publised at Urban Omnibus as part of the pool mini series.

05.2020
public-pool.com website is live.

06-08.2019
Selected public pools in New York City are photographed by Anna Morgowicz with the support of the NYC Parks Department.

05.2018
The Pool Catalogue is exhibited at A/D/O New York as a finalist for the Waterfutures Challenge organized by Jane Withers Studio.

Spring 2018
“The story of the Pool 2.0” a history-theory seminar taught by Karolina Czeczek at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.

Spring 2017
“The story of the Pool 1.0” a history-theory seminar taught by Karolina Czeczek at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.

08.2015
Project for “Skra” public pool complex in Warsaw is a finalist of the Kuryłowicz Foundation’s “Praktyka” Scholarship.