Stalowa Wola city of the past - the future of the city. Legacy of industrial architecture
The publication is a collection of articles edited by Elżbieta Przesmycka, which were created as a result of a scientific conference organized by the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola in 2015.
From a scientific review by Prof. Dr. hab. inż. arch. Andrzej Białkiewicz:
Cities such as Stalowa Wola, once alive with industry and all the problems associated with its functioning, are now sometimes stripped of their former significance. What is left is a stock of abandoned post-industrial buildings, unnecessary for production, unused, sometimes haunted by emptiness and oblivion. Therefore, this publication is an excellent study containing the author’s statements relating both to this urban-architectural heritage, the contemporary image of urban spaces, and the possibility of further creation within the framework of modernist Stalowa Wola, together with the region, as a valuable relic of interwar industrialization of Poland. (…)
A great advantage of this publication is the iconographic material contained in it. Numerous photographs complement the content, constituting an important element of the study.
It is worth adding at this point that any undertaking aimed at protecting, using and restoring the resources of post-industrial buildings, original and valuable, one of a kind, deserves to be recognized and widely disseminated.
Table of Contents:
Modernist cultural heritage
Post-industrial heritage of the 20th century / Maria J. Żychowska
Central Industrial District – what was built and where was it intended to be built? / Wojciech Chudzik
Beauty inherent in simplicity. Problems associated with the conservation of modernist objects / Grażyna Stojak
Zlin – post-industrial heritage of a model city of European modernism / Elżbieta Przesmycka
Modernist cultural heritage
Public space in the context of combining disciplines / Paweł Grobelny
Moderna. Industry + craftsmanship / Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, Paweł Grobelny
Contemporary landscape of Poland and the world – architectural projects based on Polish building, craft and design traditions / Boguslaw Barnaś
Separateness in the city – the problem of identity of districts, former independent cities, on the example of Rozwadów – a district of Stalowa Wola
Urban transformations of Rozwadów / Natalia Przesmycka
Architecture of the headquarters of the Sokół Society in Rozwadów on the background of the falconry in the region / Zbigniew Beiersdorf
Architecture of the railroad station in Rozwadów – current state and revitalization in comparison with other railroad objects in Poland / Marta Rymar.
Format 23.4 x 16.5 cm, softcover, pp. 211.
