Silesian-style Redevelopment, or the New Life of Urban Courtyards text by Marcin Szczelina A cyclical action to redevelop the neglected urban courtyards, created by three Silesian designers and implemented since 2013 by the Katowice City of Gardens Institution of Culture, combines good design, permanent transformation of the urban fabric and future users’ authentic involvement…
Polish Farmhouse brought to life with animation txt by Paweł Świerczek Capturing the specific nature of an architectural object, which is a work of art inextricably connected with the place of its creation, may be quite troublesome. One can write about architecture, document it in photographs or present architectural projects. Rafał Barnaś has added…
EXPO 2020 in Dubai was opened on 1 October. The theme of the event delayed by the pandemic is encompassed in the slogan “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”. The Poland Pavilion was designed by a Warsaw-based WXCA design studio and Bellprat Partner from Switzerland. World EXPO is the largest event of this kind…
During this year’s edition of Warsaw Home & Contract, the Architecture Snob magazine collaborated with VANK and the Mili Młodzi People studio to create a fair stand. We believe that products should be designed and made with the goal of reducing the consumption of raw materials. The joint project proves that also on the Polish…
Marcin Szczelina appointed artistic director of Warsaw Home & Contract 2021 Architecture critic and curator Marcin Szczelina has been appointed the artistic director of Warsaw Home & Contract 2021. The theme of this year’s event, which will take place on October 27–30 in the Ptak Warsaw Expo in Nadarzyn, will be REUNION. For the…
Poland Now. Polish architecture & Architecture Snob magazine in Barcelona On September 9, the event Poland Now was held in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona as part of the international campaign launched by the bilingual Architecture Snob magazine. The periodical is oriented towards promoting the most captivating and valuable phenomena in…
Poland Now. Architecture Snob. New architecture magazine and new architecture from Poland. July 2021 has seen the launch of a new magazine entitled “Architecture Snob”. The publication emerged out of a need to discuss modern architecture and to take a critical look at the surrounding reality. The first issue begins with an interview with Joseph…
Tuesday saw the launch of a new magazine entitled Architecture Snob. The publication emerged out of a need to discuss modern architecture and to take a critical look at the surrounding reality. In her book Writing About Architecture art critic Alison Lange wrote that: “Buildings are everywhere, large and small, ugly and beautiful, ambitious and…
After winning the competition for the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Polish architect Andrzej Gwizdała together with Sofía Piñero, Domingo J. González and Fernando Herrera caused a bit of commotion among their Spanish peers. We talk to the Polish architect living in Tenerife about uncertainty in architecture and in the modern world. Uncertainy…
Sprawl has come to Poland. That is what is evident from “Trouble in Paradise,” the display the curatorial team PROLOG mounted at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year. With a scenography that is so simple that it risks not giving the strangeness or scale of the issue its full due, the team both presents evidence…