After the six-episode film series "Domokrążcy" produced as part of last year's "New Plan" festival of modernist architecture and art, in which residents of modernist houses and apartments in Poznań talked about their places of residence, three more episodes were made - this time in Wrocław.
The Poznan series of films created by the Poznan branch of the Association of Polish Architects and the Open Center initiative found its continuation in the capital of Lower Silesia. The author of the scripts for all three episodes, Beata Stobiecka, takes viewers to unique places that are connected by a similar time of construction - the inscribed in the surroundings house of architect Zdzislaw Pawlak in Biskupin, the avant-garde Igloo designed by Witold Lipinski, and thePoland's first terraced atrial houses designed and inhabited by Zbigniew Bacy, Krystyna and Marian Barski and Adam Tyczkowski.
Igloo house
Designed in the 1960s, the unusual futuristic house owned by Witold Lipinski, an architect known, among other things, for his design of the Meteorological Observatory on Sniezka, is now home to an architecture foundation. The founder of the aforementioned foundation and the new owner of the house, Zbigniew Maciek, talks about the structure, construction, modern solutions of the Wroclaw icon of post-war architecture.
Biskupin house
Surrounded by greenery and old German buildings of Biskupin in the early 1960s, architect Zdzislaw Pawlak designed his own house, referring to the neighboring buildings by its form, steep roof and details. The history of the building, its construction and interiors full of original furniture are discussed by the designer and owner of the house and Dr. Jadwiga Urbanik of the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław University of Technology.
atrial house
The third episode in the series, recorded last summer, was about Poland's first terraced atrial houses built in the Krzyki district. Professor Zbigniew Bać and his neighbors, the daughters of the co-authors of the project - Ewa Barska and Barbara Rusin (née Tyczkowska ) - talk about three houses from the 1960s designed by outstanding Wroclaw architects Zbigniew Bać, Krystyna and Marian Barska and Adam Tyczkowski.
With this film we bid farewell to its main character, Zbigniew Bać. For some - an unforgettable teacher, an outstanding personality and authority not only in architectural matters, for others - a sarp's colleague, a great companion and the soul of the company. None of us imagined that the Professor would already be missing at the beginning of the new 2021 [the Professor died on January 5, 2021 - editor's note]. Many of us shared plans with him, arranged meetings, started and unfinished projects, intentions. Unfortunately, Mr. Professor will no longer see the film. However, we hope that this interesting documentary will be an opportunity for us, those who knew him and all those who did not have the pleasure, to see and listen - for the last time," write the film's authors.
