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…
How to reconcile the past and the present? What new functions can post-World War II 20th-century architecture serve? Daniel Kovács, the curator of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale, posed these questions to 12 architecture practices he invited to partake in the project Othernity. The effects can be seen in the Hungarian Pavilion…
Like never before, architecture has to follow the changes occurring in the world: on nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2022 Marcin Szczelina Houses, office buildings, streets, schools—all buildings whose rigid form is dictated by pre-existing architectural norms and their socially accepted functions have been degraded once and for all. …
(Not so) silly horoscope for February by Katarzyna Niedurny February is the month of love, and we all know what love can bring. First of all, a lot of damage. If there were a pill that makes you fall in love, nobody would take when informed about its side effects, guaranteed in nine out…
(Not so) silly horoscope for 2021 by Katarzyna Niedurny The year 2020 did not take hostages. Alongside the pandemic and general disaster, every one of us has been served with a fair share of struggles. Uneven walls, trouble at the construction site, designer’s block or plain laziness may cause as much damage as invaders…