Call for Participants – Urban Summer School: Open Form
The National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Warsaw, Poland announces the call for the summer school “Urban Summer School: Open Form.”
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Oskar and Zofia Hansen Open Form
The exhibition of Oskar and Zofia Hansen’s legacy from 15.09.2017 to 29.10.2017 showcases various aspects of the Open Form theory, which was the axis of their architectural, artistic and educational work. Presented by Oskar Hansen during the International Congress of Read More …
Transmodern Forum – Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism
The ‘Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism’ conference and forum is organized by the Transmodern collective and Collegium Hungaricum Berlin in 28-29 April 2016 in Berlin, Germany. We had a really interesting program with 17 lecturers from 9 countries to speak about Read More …
Architecture of the VII Day: A Complete Guide to Ploand’s Bottom-up Church Architecture
Between 1945 and 1989, despite the Communist state’s hostility towards religion, over 3,000 churches were built in Poland: the Architecture of the VII Day. Built by their parishioners, these churches represent a truly communal architecture, one which rejected the rigid Read More …
Igor Kovačević (Editor) – Urbanity: Twenty Years Later: Projects for Central European Capitals
Urbanity Twenty Years Later is a long term research project which is rediscovering Central European urban values. The project is regional aiming to find answers for the future of our cities as such. The first publication of the Urbanity project Read More …
Agata Lisiak – Disposable and Usable Pasts in Central European Cities
In Central European cities memories and material histories of socialist regimes remain particularly difficult to address and incorporate into the new democratic present. After 1989, city authorities in the region have chosen to emphasize some pasts and neglect others and, Read More …
Postmodernism Is Almost All Right
“Is Warsaw becoming a city of the ‘Third World’?”—asked the sociologist Bohdan Jałowiecki in 2006. If the city was moving in that direction, Polish architects and planners might have already been well equipped to deal with it. This is because Read More …