Dom w Dolinie Jamny z Grand Prix Architektury Roku Województwa Śląskiego 2024

House in the Jamna Valley with the Grand Prix of Architecture of the Year of the Silesian Voivodeship 2024

photo courtesy of ROBOTA studio

Great architecture is sometimes a small house. - With such words Przemo Lukasik justified in the verdict awarding the Grand Prix in the competition Best Architecture of the Silesian Voivodeship 2024 to an inconspicuous building in Mikolow. The house in the Jamna Valley was designed by architects from the ROBOTA studio.

Great architecture is sometimes a small house. - With such words Przemo Lukasik justified in the verdict awarding the Grand Prix in the competition Best Architecture of [...]

"People who design architecture are being reduced to the role of upstaging PUM," writes Kacper Kepinski

In what direction is architecture headed?

Kacper Kępiński, 04 of December '24
Kacper Kępiński o przyszłości architektury

Kacper Kepinski on the future of architecture

Photo: Jakub Rodziewicz © NIAiU

To give a clear answer to the question of the direction in which contemporary architecture is heading is a breakneck task. For these directions are many - they depend both on geography, the economic and political context, and the awareness and responsibility of the environment itself. Even if we focus on our immediate surroundings, Europe and Poland, the divergence between mainstream, commercial architecture, which constitutes the bulk of activity in the market, and the more engaged and [...]

To give a clear answer to the question of the direction in which contemporary architecture is heading is a breakneck task. For these directions are many - they depend [...]

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