5 QUESTIONS TO: MUS Architects about the success of the “Black Rock” house For the past weeks, media across the world have declared their admiration for the project of the Polish studio completed in Bielsko-Biała, in the Beskid mountains. It has a black, homogeneous “skin”, it resembles a glacial erratic boulder embedded in a…
Architectural marshmallows. A cloud-resembling villa from KOS Architects takes Internet by storm The project designed by Polish and Shanghai architects has been named the “cloud-villa” for its remarkable central internal staircase. The project is ingeniously subtle – no wonder that the most significant architecture and design portals find it amazing. Anna Jastrzębska Photos:…
Anarchitecture Criticism: Beyond the Four Forms of Writing about Architecture Buildings don’t talk, so we have to speak for them. Buildings represent and are present: they are facts, constructions experienced in real time and space; and they represent – when you look carefully enough, how they were made, by whom, when, and why. Of…
Architecture or money? The logical disjunction in the title suggests that one can either be an architect, or run a firm. In most cases, architects are incapable of combining creativity and the ability to successfully manage a lucrative business. Adrian Krężlik Design hunger, a giant ego and a “responsibility” for saving the world…
Prefabrication. Persona non grata The reception of the prefabrication today is different in various European countries due to their history. In countries that after war had to go a long way to reach democratic government, it is associated with a political system – communism – when the technology reached the peak of its…
Top 5 profiles on Instagram with Polish architecture The choice is absolutely subjective. It was not influenced by the number of followers or likes under pictures, but the consequence in showing Polish architecture from various perspectives. If you have not come across these accounts yet, we guarantee that the power of the frames and…
Architecture Snob launched in excellent style and in great company On October 16, Architecture Snob designed to present the most interesting phenomena and the specifics of architecture, design and culture of this part of Europe to foreign recipients had its world premiere in Warsaw. Photos: Bartek Barczyk At the evening launch…
Why is this significant? When I say that Warsaw reminds me of Los Angeles, people laugh thinking that I am joking. I respond: yes, Warsaw has a palm tree, and yes, Warsaw has a beach. But that’s not all. Lukasz Kos I’m sitting in a conference room of an…
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An architect who lacks empathy is a threat to the world Interview with professor Ewa Kuryłowicz, one of the most outstanding personalities in the world of architecture. By Marcin Szczelina Photos: Bartek Barczyk MARCIN SZCZELINA: You’ve just come back from the Architecture Biennale in Venice. What are your first impressions? EWA KURYŁOWICZ: Favorable,…