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ENAlfredas Paulauskas was born on 20 Aug 1928 in Kaunas, in the family of creative artists: Povilas Paulauskas (1899-1981) and Juzefa Kibišaitė-Paulauskienė (1900-1967) were the graduates from Kaunas Higher Art Courses. The Parents raising three children were strict and inculcated in the young generation the moral principles and appropriate knowledge in etiquette. The artistic family shared right-wing political views: during the resistance movement, Juzefa Kibišaitė was imprisoned for supplying medicines to partisans. Later, this biographical fact had an impact to the life of Alfredas Paulauskas as well: he was banned from entering Kaunas Institute of Medicine for the Mother's disloyalty to the Soviet authorities. Thereby, the dream of Alfredas Paulauskas to become a plastic surgeonrem ained unfulfilled. The dream was replaced by the reality at the Faculty of Architecture, Kaunas State University, where he studied from 1946 to 1952. The postwar period required to restore destroyed cities, towns and villages, to design a wide range of resid ential, social and cultural buildings and enterprises. The refore, the need for national urbanisation determined the popularity of Architecture Studies among the entrants. The main subject of Architecture Studies was architectural design, where as completion of task works implied the time intended for "continuous design": countless hours were spent by the students at drawing boards and subframes. When he met his future wife Irena, a student of Kaunas Institute of Medicine at that time, Alfredas was a fresh graduate with diploma and appointment to Kamchatka. However, the couple got married very soon and this way managed to stay in Lithuania. Alfredas remained to work in Vilnius as anarchitect/designerat the Research Workshop for Restoration and Manufacturing (1952) and for the State Design Institute (1952-1956). Later, the couple moved to Kaunas.On the graduation year of Irena, the first daughter Virginija was born in the Paulauskai family. In the years ahead, the daughter has chosen the medical profession. Shortly after the christening of the daughter, Alfredas thought up to move with the family to Palanga. Here, in the year 1956, one of the most striking career stages of the architect Alfredas Paulauskas started; he served as the Chief Architect of Palanga by 1963. Despite the fact that Palanga was sort of frozen in the postwar period, the Paulauskai family experienced here one of the happiest episodes of their life. In 1958, the family grew up - another daughter Neringa was born who later has linked her life with ceramics. The architect's activities were supported by a number of Palanga people. Initially, they resisted the famous history of fence removal, but after seeing the results (the public spaces of the resort turning to attractive places, the public gardens with legendary sculptures, the paved majors treets, the different types of new buildings) they nolonger hesitated about the professional attitude of the architect. The Chief Architect of the town A. Paulauskas was known as a very principled officer. After the rumour about the succesfull activity of the Chief Architect of Palanga reached the Supreme Committee, Palanga was visited by Antanas Sniečkus, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party, who offered Alfredas Paulauskas to become the Minister of Civil Engineering. With only one condition to be met - to join the Communist Party, how ever, Alfredas Paulauskas refused to fulfilth is prerequisite. After returning to Kaunas, the architect served for a few years as the Chief Architect for Kaunas Building Trust; then, in 1965, was invited to Kaunas Branch of the Urban Planning and Design Institute, where the most creative architects of the period clustered.A. Paulauskas composed his most famous projects: quay in Nida, restaurant "Žilvinas" in Joniškis, reconstruction and conversion of Laisvės alėja (Freedom Avenue) into the pedestrian street along with its small-scale architecture elements, cultural centre in Trakai, hotels in Lithuanian towns, funeral home in Kaunas and a range of other striking and creative compositions that will be discussed on the pages of the present publication. In 1991, the architect established his own individual architectural studio and continued with succesful design projects. Activity of the architect Alfredas Paulauskas in Kazlų Rūda should also be mentioned. A closer look at this creative stage of the architect that started in 1966 and proceeded actually until the death reveals his obvious efforts to repeat the phenomenon of Palanga, the success determined by the ambitious character and consistent work. Along with the volumetric solutions, the architect took care of the aesthetic/urban form ation of the settlement, therefore, his activity might be stated to be equal to the duties of the chief architect of the small town. Although A. Paulauskas was a family man and the family members were his pillars through out the life, the marriage of Alfredas and Irena was broken after many years. For Alfredas Paulauskas, the colleague and frien darchitect Dalia Augustinaitė-Paulauskienė became a significant part of his life. The long time assistant, the woman who loved him outstandingly was married by the architect being of venerable age. Shortly afterwards, having exhausted his physical and emotional powers, however, fully devoted to architecture, A. Paulauskas died on 5 January 2013. In the memoirs of the contemporaries, the architect stands a particularly intelligent, aristocratic person, and it is witnessed by each detail of his outfit, by his behaviour in public and in close surrounding, by his moderate and self-contained character. [...]. [From the publication]
