2. "Three beginnings. 1918/1945/1989"
Editors: Małgorzata Devosges-Cuber and Michał Duda
Published by: Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, 2018
"Three beginnings.1918/1945/1989" is a publication accompanying the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland's independence presented at the Museum of Architecture from December 14, 2018 to February 24, 2019. The years 1918, 1945 and 1989 brought tremendous changes in Poland on many levels, and although the buildings of the new authorities, the houses of the new society and the temples of the new art created during these periods differed fundamentally, they were united by the belief in the possibility of building a new world, in opposition to what had passed.
Architecture is usually created somewhere between who we are and who we would like to be. Perhaps this is why the most interesting phenomena in architecture are born just after major breakthroughs, on a wave of enthusiasm and spectacular projections of the future. The twentieth century was full of such events. Architecture - both understood as the creation of an environment for everyday life and seen as a large-scale stage set, meant to be a building block of national identity - each time played a huge role in the creation of modernity," write the curators of the exhibition and authors of the book - Malgorzata Devosges-Cuber and Michal Duda.
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