The new series of the Gdynia Modernism Route "Cities and Architecture" are online lectures conducted live. This week's meeting will be hosted by Michal Pszczółkowski, Ph.D., who will direct us to the trail of Wloclawek modernism. Learn about the secrets and mysteries of Wloclawek's architecture, uncovered by Dr. Pszczółkowski during his research work. The lecture is tomorrow at 7:30 pm!
Wloclawek modernism has probably become known only to a small group of enthusiasts. Michał Pszczółkowski, Ph.D., who has conducted a number of studies of Wloclawek architecture, is one of them. He went through hundreds of archival sources - local, regional and national. Thanks to his work, he was able to fathom the secrets and hitherto unknown stories of Wloclawek's modernism in the monograph "Architecture of Wloclawek in the years 1918-1939."
There are also not many modernist railroad stations from this period in Poland, and we have one in Wloclawek (I mean the narrow-gauge railroad station on Kaliska Street). There are many examples of very good residential architecture, especially from the avant-garde variety of modernism, or so-called functionalism. This type of architecture has so far been practically ignored in studies of the city's interwar history. Research on the local design community has also yielded interesting results. It turns out, for example, that Katarzyna Chmielewska-Kottas belonged to the top of the local architectural scene ," says Dr. Michal Pszczółkowski.
The lecture will take place tomorrow, May 20, at 7:30 pm on the You Tube channel of the Gdynia Modernism Route.
MichalPszczolkowski - a PhD in architecture, author of numerous publications in the field of architectural history and historic preservation. Assistant professor at the Interdepartmental Institute of Art Sciences at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. Master's degree (protection of cultural property with a specialization in conservation) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. He also studied in Oldenburg and Bamberg. In 2018, he received his habilitation from the Faculty of Architecture at the Gdansk University of Technology. Author of the concept and main coordinator of the Exploseum project in Bydgoszcz, for which he was awarded the Prize of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (the project became the Museum Event of the Year in the category of technology exhibitions). Scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Among other things, he is the author of a series of books on the architecture of the Second Republic of Poland.
