Every resident of the capital is familiar with the buildings designed by Professor Zdzislaw Mączeński. For example, the building of the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment on Szucha Avenue. If you are curious about what other buildings have come out of his hand, a lecture on the architect's work will be held this Wednesday.
The ongoing pandemic has closed museums and lecture halls, but has not interrupted our lecture series, which we have moved online! This Wednesday we invite you in front of the screens for the third story about the most interesting Warsaw architects of the 20th century.
Wednesday, May 6 at 6:30 pm for the FB-Livebroadcast on the pages of the Warsaw Uprising Museum and Warsaw Modernism 1905-1939.
The third lecture in this year's series "Third Generations of Warsaw Architects" will be devoted to the person of Professor Zdzislaw Mączenski, who is most often associated primarily as the author of the pre-war edifice of the ministry of education - the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment on Szucha Avenue. However, this is just one of more than a hundred projects by the extremely active architect, who created and built both churches, schools, official edifices and luxurious tenements. His career began before World War I in the era of eclecticism and early modernism, but over the following decades the architect developed work in both art deco and functionalist and monumentalist styles.
The professor also worked for many years as an official of the Ministry of Education, heading the School Building Department, where modern standards for public schools were formulated and the first designs for typical institutions throughout the Second Republic were made. In Warsaw, Mączeński designed, among other things, the buildings of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, luxury townhouses for the Wedel family, among others, and a church at the corner of Bartnicza and Wysocki Streets. These and other well-known and lesser-known projects will be the subject of an upcoming online lecture.
