For obvious reasons, the exhibition entitled "I'M NOT HERE. The Human Dimension of Architecture" did not open on March 27, as planned. Today, the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw invites you to see it on a new date. The exhibition is intended to make us reflect on the profession of architecture - its role not only as a designer, creator of ideas, but also its place in society.
"I'M NOT HERE. The Human Dimension of Architecture" is a story about the social role of the architect, about Wroclaw, about the adventures of a certain generation and about fidelity to deeply held beliefs. We have always believed that architecture makes sense when the project has been realized and the space is teeming with life, even though we, the architects, are no longer there.
This is what Dorota Jarodzka-Srodka and Kazimierz Srodka of the SRDK Archicom studio say about the exhibition.
The exhibition will run from June 16 to September 06, 2020.
For more information, visit the website of the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw.
Wrocław of the 1980s.
Wrocław, 1986 - a city on the eve of great changes: political, social and economic. In Polish architecture, the era of massive big-plate apartment blocks is coming to an end, and the economic crisis of the 1980s effectively inhibits the planning of new investments. For young architects, it's a period of uncertainty, mediocrity and lack of prospects for development. And yet it is then, in 1986, that a pair of enthusiasts - graduates of the architecture department of the Wroclaw University of Technology - decide to establish one of the first private architectural studios in Poland. Madness? Certainly. But also courage backed by a firm conviction of the rightness of the chosen path.
Was it really courage? - wonder Dorota Jarodzka-Śródka and Kazimierz Śródka, founders of Archicom studio - It was a mission. For we took the profession of architecture and its social responsibility very seriously from the beginning.
The dynamically changing reality of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the emerging rules of the free market and the need to adapt to the needs of the private client
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The dynamically changingreality of the late 80s and early 90s, the shaping rules of the free market and the need to adapt to the needs of the private client - all this determined the working methods of young architects and set them completely new tasks.
I'm not here
The exhibition presented at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw traces the more than thirty-year history of Archicom - one of Poland's most important architectural studios and one of the longest-established developers.
This unique, visually diverse journey in time leads the viewer from the first plans for single-family house complexes in Prochowice and Strzelin, through innovative projects on the Polish market for the construction or modernization of commercial headquarters of banks and bold in their conception adaptations of historic tenement houses, to large and intimate residential complexes faithful to modernist ideas. The Art Hotel, located in historic, beautifully restored tenement houses, the innovative Renaissance Business Center, the spacious and comfortable Four Seasons housing estates, Haller Gardens and Olimpia Park, as well as Wrocław's first exclusive lofts - Lofty Platinum - on the premises of the former Wolff brothers' distillery, are characteristic, perfectly recognizable points on the map of contemporary Wrocław.
