For Example. New Polish House
An evening on contemporary Polish architecture. Lectures and discussion
In cooperation with the Polish Institute ViennaIn anticipation of the exhibition 'For Example. New Polish House', which will be shown…
Exhibition
For Example. New Polish House
A cooperative venture between the Az W, the Centrum Architektury and the Polish Institute Vienna
Thu 13.02.2014 – Mon 03.03.2014
Exhibition poster: For Example. New Polish House
© Architekturzentrum Wien, photograph: Juliusz Sokołowski, graphic design: LIGA: graphic design
Speakers at the Opening:
Dietmar Steiner, director Az W
Sylwia Golonka-Dzienisz, deputy director Polish Institute Vienna
Agnieszka Rasmus-Zgorzelska and Aleksandra Stepnikowska, curators of the exhibition
Event in English
The exhibition “For Example. New Polish House” presents nine selected designs for Polish single-family houses. The show includes synthetical models, photographs taken especially for the exhibition by Juliusz Sokolowski, one of Poland’s best architecture photographers, as well as a catalogue with further photographs, drawings, and texts by architecture critic Pawel Kraus and sociologist Joanna Kusiak. The designs presented come from the following architects: Piotr Brzoza/Marcin Kwietowicz, hayakawa/kowalczyk, hs99, Robert Konieczny, Piotr Kuczia, jojko+nawrocki architekci, MAAS, medusa group, Grzegorz Stiasny.
The current architecture landscape in Poland is influenced by the patterns of earlier architecture – from the country estates of the 19th century to the cubic buildings from the era of the People’s Republic – and blends this with the new experience of freedom and new possibilities of expression. Consequently, ensembles are created that resemble manor-houses, there are fortress-like buildings, “McResidences” and even mountain chalets on the plains, all of which provide examples of a controversial eclecticism and the underlying ambitions and hopes of an increasingly prosperous society.
The curators from the Centrum Architektury – an independent Warsaw-based foundation – present built projects that offer an excellent impetus and basis for a debate about functional architecture and human needs, a debate that should not be conducted by experts alone. The houses selected set standards for a new kind of quality in house-building in Poland. They could also provide guidelines for future clients. For example.
Curators of the exhibition: Agnieszka Rasmus-Zgorzelska, Aleksandra Stepnikowska
Photographer: Juliusz Sokolowski
Exhibition design: Marcin Kwietowicz
Project coordination Az W: Karoline Mayer
Exhibition construction Az W: Philipp Aschenberger, Markus Puchberger, Anton Riegelnik
Free Admission
