Gylytė graduated from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University with a bachelor's degree in architecture in 2006 and a master's degree in 2008. Her master's thesis on a proposed prison in Pagiriai[1] received the award for best postgraduate thesis from the Lithuanian Union of Architects in 2008[2] and was nominated for Archiprix International, the biennale for the world’s best architecture graduation projects.[3]
Since 2009, she has actively contributed articles to professional and cultural media outlets such as Modulør,[4] LRT,[5] and 15min,[6] and has collaborated with book publishers.[7]
In 2013, Gylytė co-founded Do Architects, one of the largest Baltic architecture and urban design studios.[8]
In 2022, Gylytė co-founded Rebuild Wonderful Ukraine, an initiative uniting Central and Eastern European architects, lawyers, philosophers and donors with Ukrainian institutions,[12] and promoting human-centric transformations of socialist buildings, primarily Soviet schools.[13]
In 2023, Gylytė served as a member of the jury at the Czech Architecture Awards organized by the Czech Chamber of Architects.[14]
Gylytė has been an active keynote speaker at global and local events, conferences and biennales, including the Lviv Urban Forum in 2023 and 2024,[15] the Sofia Architecture Forum in 2022,[16] and the Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna in 2023,[17] among others.
She is a member of the Architects' Chamber of Lithuania.[18]
