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Edward Wojcik

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Mary Lhowe

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08/29/2025

RETURNING THE FAVOR: After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988 and first working for a firm owned by a professor at the school, Edward Wojcik, owner and principal of Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd., had RISD as his first client when he opened his firm in 1997. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

PBN Leaders & Achievers Awards 2025 EDWARD WOJCIK Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd. Owner and principal EDWARD WOJCIK BELIEVES he is temperamentally suited to being a leader, which is lucky, because he seems to be pushed constantly into that role. Wojcik runs his Providence-based architectural firm Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd., guiding nine staff members and managing

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PBN Leaders & Achievers Awards 2025 EDWARD WOJCIK Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd. Owner and principal

EDWARD WOJCIK BELIEVES he is temperamentally suited to being a leader, which is lucky, because he seems to be pushed constantly into that role. Wojcik runs his Providence-based architectural firm Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd., guiding nine staff members and managing innumerable client relationships. Decades ago, he agreed to join a monthly meeting to help Habitat for Humanity. Soon, that monthly meeting expanded into his swinging a hammer at building sites and heading the chapter’s building committee for 17 years. Wojcik has made several trips to Honduras with a group from his church to build housing for needy people. Wojcik has become the ipso facto planner for group vacations with his wife and several friends. A leader, Wojcik said, must listen well, look at all the facts, react and make decisions. A good leader must teach and delegate. Wojcik loves it all. “You start by being a follower; then leadership develops,” he said. “Leadership is not easy; you’ve got to work at it.” A leader who runs a business, as Wojcik does, needs to evaluate someone’s personality and potential when hiring or assigning work. He values lateral thinking, which is problem-solving that uses creative, out-of-the-ordinary or indirect solutions. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wojcik lost half of his staff. Around that time, a woman came to the office on a catering job. Wojcik, on a hunch, asked her to join the staff as an administrator. She has become a sterling employee. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988, Wojcik began working by essentially running a firm owned by a professor at the school. Nine years later, wanting to expand his reach, Wojcik opened his own company, with his employer/professor’s blessing, including his main client, which was Rhode Island School of Design. Wojcik’s firm has worked on a wide range of projects, including historic preservation and affordable housing. And his business will extend far into the future under the leadership of his son, Benjamin, also a trained architect, whom the father praises and says he has groomed for the top job.