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The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country.
List of contents
List of figuresList of abbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction
1. The architecture and architects in socialist Poland1.1. Political, geographical and historical context
1.2. Architecture of interwar period
1.3. Five generations of architects in socialist Poland
2. Artist or worker? Architect in the socialist country2.1. Education
2.2. State owned architectural offices
2.3. Academic career
2.4. Architects in public administration institutions
2.5. Architects-politicians
3. Iron curtain or nylon curtain?3.1. Foreign literature and journals
3.2. International architectural competitions
3.3. Polish architects in Western Europe
3.4. Polish architects in Middle East and North Africa
4. National in form, socialist in content4.1. Between "old" and "new" times - architecture before 1949
4.2. New cities, new estates
4.3. The architecture of "Stalinist empire style"
4.4. Post-war reconstruction of Warsaw
4.5. Western and Northern Territories
5. 5.1. Architecture and modernisation policy
5.2. "Prestigious developments"
5.3. (critical) Regionalism
5.4. New city centres
5.5. Housing estates
6. 6.1. Post-socmodernism or soc-postmodernism?
6.2. Churches in socialist state - architecture of resistance
6.3. Against the Athens Charter - postmodern urban planning
Epilogue
Appendix 1
Index
About the author
B¿äej Ciarkowski, MSc and PhD in Architecture from the Lodz University of Technology and M.A. in the History of Art from the University of Lodz. B¿äej is associate professor at the Institute of Art History, University of Lodz and three-term winner of the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. He has authored numerous books and articles on modern architecture and preservation of the modern movement's heritage. B¿äej's research interests focus on modernist architecture, mutual relations between architecture and politics, preservation and conservation of modernist architecture. He is a member of Docomomo International, Polish National Committee of ICOMOS, Association of Art Historians and Association of Polish Architects.
