our message to the outside world is clear even if our reasoning is “for the children” we are still free to endorse the soil Linda Vilhjálmsdóttir, ‘Frelsi’ (Freedom) Performance as a promise of beauty Adrian Krężlik Oceans filled with plastic straws, severe droughts in the Middle East, dynamic and dramatic climate change, melting glaciers,…
The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP24 has just opened in Katowice. The most important task facing the states is setting the rules for the implementation of the first global climate agreement, namely the Paris Agreement. The agreement purports to prevent global temperature increase in order to avoid the threat of climate catastrophe that is…
5 QUESTIONS TO: Grzegorz Layer about the project “Plac na Glanc” and restraining the ego Give us a courtyard and we’ll make it beautiful – it is a kind of a motto guiding a group of Silesian designers who have been regularly working with residents since 2013 to transform neglected spaces into welcoming ones,…
Ivan Blasi: The architecture of uncertainty In Poland, a country of more than 38 million inhabitants, with nearly 61% of its population living in urban areas, the transformation of cities has exerted a great impact on the lives of the citizens, despite the fact that this rate has not changed much in the last 30…
5 QUESTIONS TO: Bartłomiej Drabik from Superhelix about the House Behind The Roof and a cruel disease of the architectural community Media went crazy over this project. The building, located on a small estate near Cracow, proves that any limitation can be turned into an asset. Anna Jastrzębska Photos: Bartłomiej Drabik In…
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…