The article of Robert Dzięcielski “I asked about the city and the armchair at home…, or about domestication of Lodz” is an attempt of anthropological re-reading the contemporary meaning of the center of Lodz which is ...

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 ...

Michalina Tatarkówna-Majkowska, działaczka polskiego ruchu robotniczego, całym swym życiem oddana pracy i sprawom robotniczej Łodzi oraz partii – KPP, PPR i PZPR, jej działalność pozostawiła trwałe ślady w krajobrazie ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...