The article discusses the changes in the location in relation to the town square of former churches (mostly Catholic churches), dating from the 16th to the 18th century. In the first half of the nineteenth century, on the ...

With the so-called political transformation that took place in Poland after 1989, numerous new threats to historic buildings emerged. This was particularly true of industrial construction. The collapse of many industries ...

Radom is one of the main centres for the occurrence of historical/historic cast-iron architectural castings. This article presents a part of this resource – a set of metal (cast-iron) balconies adorning tenement houses in ...

John L. Austin’s 1960s speech act theory marked an important turn in the study of performativity and causality. Jacques Derrida in 1972 pointed out that not only speech but also writing has performative, causal powers of ...

Although railway technology is similar in all countries where it developed, there are some differences in the technical details and methods of operation. The architecture of railway stations is no different. It is the ...

The aim of the competition – announced on 1 May 1886 – for the urban design of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1889 was selected the most interesting project, implementing the idea of creating a central point for organizing ...

The purpose of this article is to examine and describe selected new materials in the field of design and interior architecture introduced to the general public in the interwar period in Poland. The technological and ...