Tradition, loss and confusion : country as the image of the city - Poland after 1945

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Title: Tradition, loss and confusion : country as the image of the city - Poland after 1945
Author: Urbańska, Marta A.
Release date: 2014
Place of publication: Kraków
Publisher: Wydawnictwo PK
Published in: Tradition and heritage in the contemporary image of the city : monograph. Vol. 2, Challenges and responses / edited by Tomasz Jeleński, Stanisław Juchnowicz, Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz
Pages: 137-142
Language: English
ISBN: 978-83-7242-797-7
Comments: 30th Anniversary of the International Centre of Education
Keywords: Polish manor, tradition, loss, legal confusion, country, city
Abstract: This article was inspired by the photographic project, Underconstructed Houses, which was completed in 2008 by two artists, Associate Professors Agata Pankiewicz and Marcin Przybyłko (both of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.) Descriptions and commentary were made by the author of this essay. While the documentation of the project is still available at www.underconstructed.pl, the situation in the Polish countryside has slightly changed recently, in terms of forms tending towards tradition (albeit often misunderstood) and finishing with recently built or finished (in quite a shocking manner) houses. Still, the concrete, block-like constructions described are spread all over the country in a truly modern paradigm of progress. However, this article discusses further events – a bizarre symmetry of loss of tradition, still caused by bad, draconian laws, to put it mildly – both in the country and in the city.
PKT classification: 640000 Architektura
Department: Faculty of Architecture
License: Licencja PK. Brak możliwości edycji i druku.
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