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Urbanistyka socmodernistyczna na przykładzie polskich blokowisk z lat 70. i 80. XX w.

(Uniwersytet Opolski, 2017) Drozda, Łukasz; Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie; Uniwersytet Warszawski

The year 1972 was a turning point in the history of architecture because of the demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe housing estate and thus became the symbolic beginning of the end of modernism. At the same time, in Poland, the housing estate called “Za Żelazną Bramą” (Behind the Iron Gate) was put in use and became the model example of the socialist modernism and the construction industry and its “housing factories” began their activities on a mass scale. The urbanism of the 1970s and the 1980s, still controversial today because of its functional and aesthetical limitations, recently became an object of fascination re-awakened by F. Springer’s books and – on the other hand – an object of critical reflection based on late Polish translations of J. Jacobs and R. Venturi works. The paper analyzes current landscape of block housing estates in terms of their social, technical and functional evaluation in relation to contemporary urban theories, showing some developmental prospects and possible “return of the blocks of flats” and the prefabricated construction industry

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O dramacie modernistycznym polskim i ukraińskim w ujęciu porównawczym

(Towarzystwo Literackie im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2014) Korzeniowska-Bihun, Anna; Uniwersytet Warszawski

The review of Nataliya Malutina’s Polish and Ukrainian Modern Drama: the Cross-road of Traditions. Monograph (Польська та українська модерна драма: перехрестя традиції. Монографія) (Odessa 2013) emphasizes the broad spectrum of the Ukrainian researcher’s interests as well as a detailed analysis of the issues presented by her. The text presents also the current state of research in the field of the Polish-Ukrainian literary and theatrical interrelationships during the Modernist Period.