In the next episode of Domokrążcy , the curators invite the curators to an apartment located in an interwar tenement house in Poznań's Jeżyce district, where art historian Professor Piotr Korduba lives. How many treasures are there! Polish kilims, a sedan, Czech glass, contemporary art, a space carpet, a chandelier from Ciechocinek and many, many interesting stories that follow these objects.
Jeżyce is a Poznan residential district from the early 20th century, and the protagonist's apartment is in a modernist tenement house on Asnyka Street from 1935. The tenement was erected by the well-known pre-war developer Jozef Jarysz, who collaborated with architect Tadeusz Plonczak. The investors in this part of Jezycie with Asnyka Square (the so-called family garden) were the Kosicki family.
Piotr Korduba is a professor of art history and director of the Art History Institute at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He focuses his research on the history of residential architecture and the culture of habitation. He also researches artistic craftsmanship and German-Polish art-historical relations.
"Acomfortable dwelling in a tenement house from the second half of the 1930s, a typical example of the cautious and rather thrifty approach of Poznań residents to the then new trend in architecture. The facade of the tenement operates with modernist restraint, it does without decorative details, the wide windows bring to mind the striped ribbons of windows postulated by Le Corbusier, the clinker cladding of the first floor emphasizes the links with modern realizations of that period. The interior, however, is conservative. Instead of a reinforced concrete column structure - brick and wooden ceilings and stairs. The apartment itself, on the other hand, charms with its considerable size and the comfort of large bright rooms satisfying the aspirations of a better-off and moderately modern pre-war Poznan family," reads the series curators' description.
Tadeusz P£ÑCZAK - is the author of the monument to the Heroes on the Poznan Citadel ((1946), the skyscraper of the Miastoprojekt (1950), the building of the Presidium of the City Council in the Old Town (1950-1952). Several general plans of Poznań were created under his direction. He was a graduate of the State Construction School in Poznań, and after the war completed his master's degree (engineering) at the Warsaw University of Technology. From 1933 he worked at the Municipal Urban Planning Studio in Poznań, where he was head from 1945 to 1949. From 1949 to 1955 he was the chief urban planner of the Poznan Miastoprojekt.
The film was made as part of the New Plan Festival, which took place in Poznań from 8-14.10.2020. The theme of this year's edition is "Home."
A&B is a media patron of the event.
Organizers: Association of Polish Architects Poznań Branch, Open Center
Partners: the National Cultural Center, the City of Poznań, the Center for Local Initiatives, the Castle Cultural Center, the Wielkopolska Regional Chamber of Architects, SARP Wrocław, SARP Warsaw
