WARSAW FOR BEGINNERS
Where did Warsaw come from? In what architectural style were most tenement houses designed? Who holds office in the rebuilt palaces today? Where did Warsaw’s rivers flow? What is the genesis of MDM?
You will hear answers to these and many other interesting questions during eleven lectures at Zodiak by specialists in the history of Warsaw architecture and space.
The series was prepared by the curatorial team from Fundacja Centrum Architektury:
- Agnieszka Rasmus
- Filip Dańda
- Anna Wrońska
It is intended for people who have no professional contact with the topics of architecture or history of Warsaw, but would like to get to know their city better.
We invite you to lectures from November 2024 to June 2025.
WHERE DID WARSAW COME FROM? THE FIRST BUILDINGS IN OUR CITY
- 26.11.2024
- godz. 18:00
Do we know where the first house was built in today’s Warsaw? Where has the first crop been sown? The first horse was shod? Has the first well been dug? Where was the center and in what direction was the city developing?
Will we learn the answers to the above questions during Błażej Brzostek’s lecture on the beginnings of the development of our city? Or maybe something completely different?
Błażej Brzostek – a historian, works at the University of Warsaw. He deals with social history. He is the author of books about workers in the Polish People’s Republic, cuisine and dining, as well as about Warsaw and Bucharest. He works on the history of women in post-war Poland.
Enthusiasm and chaos. The history of Warsaw buildings in the 1990s.
- 17.12.2024
- godz. 18:00
We ridicule them or worship them. We demolishthem more and more often. Sometimes there are also attempts to include them in the register of monuments. Colorful, crazy, strange – buildings from the 90s rarely leave us indifferent.
But why did they suddenly appear in the Warsaw landscape? What made people start building this way? What did this mean for the architectural community and what for business and the inhabitants of Warsaw? Can this new, colorful style be called postmodern and where did postmodernism come from? And finally, which buildings have stood the test of time?
Anna Cymer – She began to study the history of architecture while still a student. Her master’s thesis concerned the idea of a social estate based on the example of the construction of a Warsaw housing estate in Rakowiec. Following the development of residential architecture, she researched post-war concepts of housing estates until she finally became fascinated with the construction of the People’s Republic of Poland in general – which resulted in the book “Architecture in Poland 1945–1989”.