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 ...

Lodz is one of the biggest Polish cities (it used to be the second biggest, now it is the third one), situated in the centre of the country. The unusual character and aesthetics of the city stems from its industrial ...

Autorka prezentowanej książki ukazu je wagę oraz złożoność problemów i wyzwań wynikających z wprowadzenia nowej funkcji do obiektu architektonicznego, stanowiącego część ważnego dziedzictwa kulturowego. Współczesne zjawisko ...