The beginning of the 21st century brought another wave of great interest in architecture of the African continent. Contemporary designs and their creators attract more and more intense attention at the international arena. ...

The book “Africa – and (post)colonial studies” contains several texts about modern and traditional art from the African continent. The majority of these texts were presented during International Conference “AFRICAN TRADITION ...

The book “African Art. African Tradition – African Modernity” contains several texts about modern and traditional art from the African continent. The majority of these texts were presented during International Conference ...

Following the political breakthrough of 1989 architects were faced with completely new challenges. After the lethargy of the 1980s Polish architecture experienced a real turn. A remarkable transformation was taking place ...

The Art Museum in Łódź, whose collections are well-known in the international arena, is not yet situated in its own modern museum building. A unique set of the international avantgarde works included in the Museum’s 1930s ...

At the end of October and at the beginning of November 1981 (26.10 – 15.11.1981) Łódź hosted the first Construction in Process. Although it was held outside the official structures and institutional art circulation, it ...

In 1991, an innovative and original artistic space was created by Krystyna Potocka-Suwalska on the ground fl oor of a block of fl ats in Łódź’s Manhattan district (which is a housing estate dating from the 1970s). Since ...

As a result of post-socialist political transformations and globalization-related pro-cesses, the architectural landscape of Central and Eastern European cities is undergoing signi-ficant metamorphosis. Their architecture ...

Architecture substantially strengthens and supports the identity of a city and its citizens. Buildings are the most easily and commonly available testimony to culture. The political transformation which took place in Poland ...