Aleksandra Czupkiewicz, Maria Wawer & Patryk Kusz: pavilions
Galerie VI PER, Vítkova 2, Praha-Karlín warmly invites you on Thursday, May 23 at 7:00 PM to a lecture from the Future Architecture Talks series.
The initiative pawilony_pavilions focuses on the discovery of forgotten buildings that provided shops and services and were built in the 1960s in the housing estates of Wrocław, Poland. As objects, these buildings touch upon two essential topics in the Polish discussion about architecture, which are gradually disappearing from the landscape of Polish cities: the issue of post-war modern heritage and local services. In the lecture, we will consider why there are only a few buildings in Poland built after 1945 that have the status of a monument, and why these “pavilions,” despite their unique architecture, have little chance of obtaining this title. We will focus on the story of several such exceptional objects. In the 1960s, when monumental architecture was far from creating streets (as it had in the industrial era), pavilions became a substitute for streets and a guarantee of the identity of a given neighborhood. They served as places for meeting, shopping, and utilizing services, such as hairdressing or tailoring. Today, some of these buildings are abandoned or face demolition. Others thrive, even though they are covered in advertisements and posters. We will show how we envision the pavilions after their renovation, and reflect on the possibilities of what their new operational program should look like and what events and activities might help them become “cool” again.
Aleksandra Czupkiewicz (1991) works as an architect at the Maćków Pracownia Projektowa. She studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław University of Technology. She is a co-author of books about Stefan Müller and Jan Szpakowicz, and her work frequently appears in Polish architectural magazines, including Architektura Murator and Zawod Architekt. She also designs scenography and various installations. Last year, she led a panel on Women in Architecture as part of the Młodzi do Łodzi conference and initiated a series of lectures titled Architectural Plots in Film, which were part of the MIASTOmovie film festival in Wrocław.
Maria Wawer (1991) is an architect, working at the Ch+ Architekci. She studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław University of Technology. She also has experience abroad: in Belgium, she stayed during her internship at the Brussels architectural studio JDS Architects (Julien de Smedt Architects), and in Portugal, she studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa). She designs installations and mainly focuses on medium-sized cultural projects, educational, and community centers.
Patryk Kusz (1992) is an architect at the Major Architekci. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław University of Technology. He has collaborated with the Jednostka Architektury foundation and VROA Architekci on several exhibitions, such as Patchwork: Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak, and on projects for the revitalization of post-war modernist architecture. He is interested in photography, and his photographs have appeared in Designboom, Fresh from Poland, and in Polish architectural magazines (ARCH, Architektura Murator, and Architektura & Biznes).
Since 2018, he has been part of the informal group pawilony_pavilions. They catalog these objects with photographs and projects and show how they might look after renovation, debating about these outcomes.
The lecture is organized as part of the year-round program of Galerie VI PER within the Future Architecture platform.
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The initiative pawilony_pavilions focuses on the discovery of forgotten buildings that provided shops and services and were built in the 1960s in the housing estates of Wrocław, Poland. As objects, these buildings touch upon two essential topics in the Polish discussion about architecture, which are gradually disappearing from the landscape of Polish cities: the issue of post-war modern heritage and local services. In the lecture, we will consider why there are only a few buildings in Poland built after 1945 that have the status of a monument, and why these “pavilions,” despite their unique architecture, have little chance of obtaining this title. We will focus on the story of several such exceptional objects. In the 1960s, when monumental architecture was far from creating streets (as it had in the industrial era), pavilions became a substitute for streets and a guarantee of the identity of a given neighborhood. They served as places for meeting, shopping, and utilizing services, such as hairdressing or tailoring. Today, some of these buildings are abandoned or face demolition. Others thrive, even though they are covered in advertisements and posters. We will show how we envision the pavilions after their renovation, and reflect on the possibilities of what their new operational program should look like and what events and activities might help them become “cool” again.
Aleksandra Czupkiewicz (1991) works as an architect at the Maćków Pracownia Projektowa. She studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław University of Technology. She is a co-author of books about Stefan Müller and Jan Szpakowicz, and her work frequently appears in Polish architectural magazines, including Architektura Murator and Zawod Architekt. She also designs scenography and various installations. Last year, she led a panel on Women in Architecture as part of the Młodzi do Łodzi conference and initiated a series of lectures titled Architectural Plots in Film, which were part of the MIASTOmovie film festival in Wrocław.
Maria Wawer (1991) is an architect, working at the Ch+ Architekci. She studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław University of Technology. She also has experience abroad: in Belgium, she stayed during her internship at the Brussels architectural studio JDS Architects (Julien de Smedt Architects), and in Portugal, she studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa). She designs installations and mainly focuses on medium-sized cultural projects, educational, and community centers.
Patryk Kusz (1992) is an architect at the Major Architekci. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Wrocław University of Technology. He has collaborated with the Jednostka Architektury foundation and VROA Architekci on several exhibitions, such as Patchwork: Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak, and on projects for the revitalization of post-war modernist architecture. He is interested in photography, and his photographs have appeared in Designboom, Fresh from Poland, and in Polish architectural magazines (ARCH, Architektura Murator, and Architektura & Biznes).
Since 2018, he has been part of the informal group pawilony_pavilions. They catalog these objects with photographs and projects and show how they might look after renovation, debating about these outcomes.
The lecture is organized as part of the year-round program of Galerie VI PER within the Future Architecture platform.
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