Books by Alicja Gzowska
Książka jest rezultatem prowadzonych we współpracy z Instytutem Historii Sztuki UW od ponad roku ... more Książka jest rezultatem prowadzonych we współpracy z Instytutem Historii Sztuki UW od ponad roku badań naukowych, a teksty do niej przygotowali wybitni specjaliści; prof. Marta Leśniakowska, prof. Waldemar Baraniewski, dr Ewa Toniak oraz dr Ella Chmielewska. Unikalną dokumentację fotograficzną wykonał na nasze zlecenie Szymon Rogiński. Mamy nadzieję, że jej publikacja przyczyni się do dalszego badania, a przede wszystkim ochrony tej wyjątkowej galerii sztuki na świeżym powietrzu jaką tworzą stołeczne rzeźby architektoniczne.
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P2 is series of interviews with six architects who in various ways have referred to postmodernism... more P2 is series of interviews with six architects who in various ways have referred to postmodernism in their work. The compilation of opinions of Czesław Bielecki, Marek Budzyński, Jerzy Gurawski, Wojciech Jarząbek, Romuald Loegler and Jakub Wujek shows the way Polish experiences with postmodernism have been shaped. The architects' memories reveal how the theories and formal solutions created in the West were confronted with technologies available in Poland at the end of the Communist Era and the times of political transformation as well as with the state building norms. The interviews provide a basis for reflections on the way postmodern ideas were present in Polish architecture of 1980s and 1990s.
Niniejsza książka jest zapisem rozmów z sześcioma architektami, którzy w swojej praktyce projektowej na różne sposoby odnosili się do zagadnienia postmodernizmu. Zestawienie wypowiedzi Czesława Bieleckiego, Marka Budzyńskiego, Jerzego Gurawskiego, Wojciecha Jarząbka, Romualda Loeglera i Jakuba Wujka pokazuje, jak kształtowały się doświadczenia związane z tym nurtem w Polsce. Ich wspomnienia pozwalają zaobserwować jak powstałe na zachodzie teorie i rozwiązania formalne były konfrontowane z dostępnymi technologiami i państwowymi normatywami budownictwa. Zebrane wywiady stanowią punkt wyjścia do rozważań nad sposobem obecności postmodernistycznych postulatów zarówno w rzeczywistości późnego socjalizmu, jak i w okresie transformacji.
This book documents the export of architecture and urban planning from socialist Poland to the Mi... more This book documents the export of architecture and urban planning from socialist Poland to the Middle East and North Africa in the last decades of the Cold War, and the impact of this experience of the production of urban space in Poland after socialism. Complementing the exhibition PRL™ Export Architecture and Urbanism from Socialist Poland (Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, 2010), this research project examines the consequences of this export for the production of architecture and urban space in Poland after 1989. By interrogating the work of several among the most successful architects in today’s Poland, this research examines the relevance of their engagement in post-colonial countries in the 1970s and 1980s for their current practices. This allows questioning the links between architectural post-modernism and post-socialism: the post-modern rediscovery of “context” and “local identity”, and the rejection of modernist “universalism” and its “social utopias”.
Book is a monography of the Katowice railway station, built in 1966- 1972, designed by Warsaw arc... more Book is a monography of the Katowice railway station, built in 1966- 1972, designed by Warsaw architects: Wacław Kłyszewski, Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki. The aim was to provide a comprehensive history of design and construction process, embracing also architectural competition in 1959 and preceeding studies. Katowice railway station had an unique structure authored by Wacław Zalewski, comparable to "umbrellas" of Felix Candela. In addition to the analysis of architectural forms, book also highlights the broader political context of new constructions and rebuilding centre of Katowice in the 60's and 70's.
Book Chapters by Alicja Gzowska
Sir Banister Fletcher's Global History of Architecture, 21st edition, 2019
The 1960–1980 period witnessed the formation of a transitional professional framework in architec... more The 1960–1980 period witnessed the formation of a transitional professional framework in architecture that contributed to the new geopolitical setting, mediated the crisis of hitherto prevailing forms of practice and design tasks, and redefined the scope of competences and the very role of the discipline. The key shift from an object-based to a process-based model of architectural knowledge production was affected by the emergence of new organizational forms and operational strategies. Institutions and agencies of the new kind – from dominant, state, interdisciplinary research institutes to nongovernmental organizations,1 informal groups, intelligences and transnational policies – occupied a central position in this transition. Although the actors differed widely in character, they enabled and encouraged an unprecedented scale of cooperation and exchange in multilateral systems related to architecture.2 The development of intensive transnational collaboration resulted in the formation of the current internationally influenced, yet localized discipline and architectural practice, which is " turning experiments in design into experiments in organizational process, decision-making and cross-disciplinary practice. " 3 In this article, we make an attempt to group and categorize the agencies, taking into consideration the types and operational modes adopted by them, and thus propose a provisional taxonomy of exchange frameworks in international architectural practice. The categories elaborated in the article together with their respective sets of examples also form a presentation of a new research perspective on the analysis of architectural culture in Central Europe.
Artykuł omawia twórczość Karola Fojcika (1932-) czołowego architekta Biura Projektów Budownictwa ... more Artykuł omawia twórczość Karola Fojcika (1932-) czołowego architekta Biura Projektów Budownictwa Kolejowego w Katowicach, gdzie opracował on dokumentację szeregu modernizacji dworców kolejowych, powtarzalnych projektów dla przystanków o różnym obciążeniu ruchem oraz obiektów towarzyszących. I choć twórczość projektanta podlegała znacznym ograniczeniom, umiejętnie wykorzystywał on okazje aby realizować architekturę wygodną, racjonalną i trwałą, która silnie wpłynęła na obraz infrastruktury katowickiej Dyrekcji Okręgowej PKP.
Factories of Motion: On the Problems of Designing Railway Stations in Poland in the 60s and 70s.
... more Factories of Motion: On the Problems of Designing Railway Stations in Poland in the 60s and 70s.
The work of architects employed during the communist regime in Polish state design offices, which significantly influenced the shape of the contemporary built environment, is often perceived as self-evident, worthless, and rarely is a subject of deep analysis and reflection. This text is an attempt to discuss such "dull" state-produced architecture, through the example of late-modern railway stations and stops. Similarities in their design stem from a set of far-sighted rules shaping the design of the railway, which were elaborated in the late 50s but brought widespread effects only in the 60s. At that time a kind of functional canon of railway stations and stops had been established. According to those general functional principles, dozens of railway stations were built in various architectural forms in the period of intense investments during the 60s and 70s. This article analyzes some of the best and most interesting examples of the architecture of railway stations in the People's Republic of Poland. Focusing on objects of small and medium size, it complements the existing research concerning large stations such as in Katowice and Warsaw, with less familiar "peripheral" realizations. These structures appear to be representative of architects' average skill and taste located between architectural conservatism and experimental extremes.
From the insert on Radical Pedagogies, eds. Beatriz Colomina and Evangelos Kotsioris with Volume ... more From the insert on Radical Pedagogies, eds. Beatriz Colomina and Evangelos Kotsioris with Volume / Nick Axel, published in: Volume 45 (2015).
Postmodernizm polski. Architektura i urbanistyka. Antologia tekstów pod redakcją Lidii Klein [Polish Postmodernism: Architecture and Urbanism. An anthology edited by Lidia Klein ], Nov 2013
Modernizm w architekturze Warszawy lat 60., Nov 2013
Nie ma przesady w stwierdzeniu, że warszawskie środowisko architektów i konstruktorów związanych ... more Nie ma przesady w stwierdzeniu, że warszawskie środowisko architektów i konstruktorów związanych z budownictwem przemysłowym odegrało kluczową rolę w formowaniu się architektury lat 50. i 60. XX wieku w Polsce. To stąd płynęły najciekawsze pomysły, realizowane następnie w wielu zakątkach kraju, zyskujące obecnie status ikonicznych budynków doby PRL-u. Był to fenomen niezwykle złożony, rysujący się na tle interesującej sieci wzajemnych powiązań i zależności. Badanie ich pozwala nie tylko coraz lepiej rozumieć tę architekturę, ale także utrwalać zanikającą wiedzę o warunkach, w których powstawała. W niniejszym eseju ujęłam to zagadnienie bardzo wycinkowo, koncentrując się z konieczności na wybranych problemach i nakreślając jedynie podstawowe prawidłowości.
Nuts & Bolts of Construction History. Culture, Technology and Society, ed. R. Carvais, A. Guillerme, V. Negre, J. Sakarovitch, 2012
Kunst und Industrie. Das Paradigma der Innovationen – das Kulturerbe in den Industriegebieten Deutschlands und Polens/ Sztuka i Przemysł. Paradygmat innowacji – dziedzictwo kulturowe na obszarach przemysłowych Niemiec i Polski, 2013
Miasto (post)socjalistyczne. Przestrzeń władzy tom II
Nowe szaty króla. Przebudowa centrum Katowic a "socjalizm z ludzką twarzą"
Między formą a ideologią. Architektura XX wieku w Polsce, 2012
Trwałość? Użyteczność? Piękno? Architektura XX wieku w Polsce
Papers by Alicja Gzowska
Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 2019
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Books by Alicja Gzowska
Niniejsza książka jest zapisem rozmów z sześcioma architektami, którzy w swojej praktyce projektowej na różne sposoby odnosili się do zagadnienia postmodernizmu. Zestawienie wypowiedzi Czesława Bieleckiego, Marka Budzyńskiego, Jerzego Gurawskiego, Wojciecha Jarząbka, Romualda Loeglera i Jakuba Wujka pokazuje, jak kształtowały się doświadczenia związane z tym nurtem w Polsce. Ich wspomnienia pozwalają zaobserwować jak powstałe na zachodzie teorie i rozwiązania formalne były konfrontowane z dostępnymi technologiami i państwowymi normatywami budownictwa. Zebrane wywiady stanowią punkt wyjścia do rozważań nad sposobem obecności postmodernistycznych postulatów zarówno w rzeczywistości późnego socjalizmu, jak i w okresie transformacji.
Book Chapters by Alicja Gzowska
The work of architects employed during the communist regime in Polish state design offices, which significantly influenced the shape of the contemporary built environment, is often perceived as self-evident, worthless, and rarely is a subject of deep analysis and reflection. This text is an attempt to discuss such "dull" state-produced architecture, through the example of late-modern railway stations and stops. Similarities in their design stem from a set of far-sighted rules shaping the design of the railway, which were elaborated in the late 50s but brought widespread effects only in the 60s. At that time a kind of functional canon of railway stations and stops had been established. According to those general functional principles, dozens of railway stations were built in various architectural forms in the period of intense investments during the 60s and 70s. This article analyzes some of the best and most interesting examples of the architecture of railway stations in the People's Republic of Poland. Focusing on objects of small and medium size, it complements the existing research concerning large stations such as in Katowice and Warsaw, with less familiar "peripheral" realizations. These structures appear to be representative of architects' average skill and taste located between architectural conservatism and experimental extremes.
Papers by Alicja Gzowska
Niniejsza książka jest zapisem rozmów z sześcioma architektami, którzy w swojej praktyce projektowej na różne sposoby odnosili się do zagadnienia postmodernizmu. Zestawienie wypowiedzi Czesława Bieleckiego, Marka Budzyńskiego, Jerzego Gurawskiego, Wojciecha Jarząbka, Romualda Loeglera i Jakuba Wujka pokazuje, jak kształtowały się doświadczenia związane z tym nurtem w Polsce. Ich wspomnienia pozwalają zaobserwować jak powstałe na zachodzie teorie i rozwiązania formalne były konfrontowane z dostępnymi technologiami i państwowymi normatywami budownictwa. Zebrane wywiady stanowią punkt wyjścia do rozważań nad sposobem obecności postmodernistycznych postulatów zarówno w rzeczywistości późnego socjalizmu, jak i w okresie transformacji.
The work of architects employed during the communist regime in Polish state design offices, which significantly influenced the shape of the contemporary built environment, is often perceived as self-evident, worthless, and rarely is a subject of deep analysis and reflection. This text is an attempt to discuss such "dull" state-produced architecture, through the example of late-modern railway stations and stops. Similarities in their design stem from a set of far-sighted rules shaping the design of the railway, which were elaborated in the late 50s but brought widespread effects only in the 60s. At that time a kind of functional canon of railway stations and stops had been established. According to those general functional principles, dozens of railway stations were built in various architectural forms in the period of intense investments during the 60s and 70s. This article analyzes some of the best and most interesting examples of the architecture of railway stations in the People's Republic of Poland. Focusing on objects of small and medium size, it complements the existing research concerning large stations such as in Katowice and Warsaw, with less familiar "peripheral" realizations. These structures appear to be representative of architects' average skill and taste located between architectural conservatism and experimental extremes.
masowego ruchu podróżnych. Choć w tym okresie architektura dworców kształtowana była ściśle pod kątem zakładanych funkcji, Karol Fojcik traktował każdą realizację indywidualnie, przy pomocy interesujących gestów artystycznych [awangardowa konstrukcja, dekoracja plastyczna] nadając jej wyjątkowy charakter. Propozycja wystąpienia oparta jest na materiałach zgromadzonych w archiwach Zarządu Głównego SARP
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Exploring the intersection of two areas of growing scholarly interest-postmodernism and the architecture of the socialist and former-communist world-this edited collection stakes out new ground as the first work to chart the various transformations of second world architecture in the 1970s and 80s. Thirteen essays together explore the question of whether or not architectural postmodernism had a specific second world variant.
The collection ultimately aims to demonstrate both the unique nature of second world architectural phenomena, and also to assess connections with western postmodernism. The work comprises thirteen truly diverse case studies, covering not only the vast geographical scope of the former socialist world, but also a wealth of aesthetic, discursive and practical phenomena, interpreting architecture in the broader socio-political context of the last decades of the Cold War. The result should provide a greatly expanded map of recent architectural history, which redefines postmodernist architecture in a more theoretically comprehensive and global way.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Vladimir Kulic
Part I: Discourses
Chapter 1. The Retro Problem: Modernism and Postmodernism in the USSR, Richard Anderson
Chapter 2. Humanization of Living Environment and the Late Socialist Theory of Architecture, Maroš Krivý
Chapter 3. The Discontents of Socialist Modernity and the Return of the Ornament: The Tulip Debate and the Rise of Organic Architecture in Postwar Hungary, Virág Molnár
Chapter 4. An Architect's Library: Printed Matter and PO-MO Ideas in 1980s Belgrade, Ljiljana Blagojevic
Part II: Practices
Chapter 5. Bogdan Bogdanovic's Surrealist Postmodernism, Vladimir Kulic
Chapter 6. One Size Fits All: Appropriating Postmodernism in the Architecture of Late Socialist Poland, Lidia Klein and Alicja Gzowska
Chapter 7. Werewolves on Cattle Street: Estonian Collective Farms and Postmodern Architecture, Andres Kurg
Chapter 8. Incomplete Postmodernism: The Rise and Fall of Utopia in Cuba, Fredo Rivera
Chapter 9. Anti-Architectures of Self-Incurred Immaturity, Alla Vronskaya
Part III: Exchanges
Chapter 10. Cultural Feedback Loops of Late Socialism: Appropriation and Transformation of Postmodern tropes for Uran and Crystal in Ceská Lípa, Ana Miljacki
Chapter 11. Mobilities of Architecture in the Late Cold War: From Socialist Poland to Kuwait, and Back, Lukasz Stanek
Chapter 12.East-East Architectural Transfers and the Afterlife of Socialist Postmodernism in Japan, Max Hirsh
Chapter 13. Defining Reform: Postmodern Architecture in Post-Mao China, 1980-1989, Cole Roskam
Postscript
A Postmodernist International? Reinhold Martin