Only until January 19 of this year, an exhibition titled "The Bicentennial in Your District" is still on display at premises number 18 in the underpass under the Forty-Year Roundabout. You are welcome!
The exhibition, organized by the National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in cooperation with the National Heritage Institute, is presented in an unusual place, as in the premises in the underground passage at the Warsaw intersection of Jerozolimskie Avenue and Chalubinskiego Street.
© National Institute of Architecture and Urbanism
A little more than a century ago, in reborn Poland, processes began that aimed to build a modern state. These included a number of activities, including building an economic system based on modern industry, spreading access to and raising the level of education, or improving the living conditions of citizens. To this day, testimony to this nationwide investment effort is provided by, among other things, extraordinary architecture, the value and growing popularity of which is evidenced by projects such as the Krakow Modernism Route, Gdynia Modernism and Katowice Modernism.
And what was the situation in smaller cities? In the project, whose full name is "Infrastructure of Independence: The Architecture of Polish County Modernization Projects," the organizers decided to look at the heritage of the period from a slightly different perspective. Nine counties (Chorzow, Chrzanow, Kalisz, Inowroclaw, Maritime, High Mazovia, Siedlce, Radom and Rzeszow) located in different parts of the country were selected from the interwar provinces remaining within Poland's current borders. The purpose of this exhibition is to see, using their examples, what spatial effects were brought about by the reforms and public and private investments of the time.
© National Institute of Architecture and Urbanism
The exhibition runs from December 18, 2019 to January 19, 2020, opening hours: Mon-Sat: 9am-8pm.
More information about the exhibition can be found on the organizers' website.
