(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…
Last year the studio Karpiel Steindel Architektura donated a tailor-made design of a private house to the Wielka Orkiestra Świątecznej Pomocy (The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity), Poland’s biggest charity event that raises money for paediatric care. The studio’s contribution sparked interest among architects and the general public. We talked to Jan Karpiel-Bułecka Jr. to…
It begins with one word. Choose your own. Katarzyna Krakowiak at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona. Let’s not postpone our lives. We do not believe in the time that comes “after all this is over”. What happens with our world is a continuum. There is no end after which everything returns to…
Eastern and Central Europe missing from the architectural map of Sarkis. Reflections on the Architecture Biennale in Venice. Marcin Szczelina The majority of reviewers worldwide have hailed the previous edition of Architecture Biennale, chaired by Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, as lacking reflection, banal, and a simply boring overview of the projects.…
Architects support Jurek Owsiak This year, Architecture Snob platform, decided to involve architects in collecting money for the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity Foundation, by organizing special auctions where you can place your bids for books and albums of well-known architects, participation in lunch or meeting with prominent architecture critics and architects. -…
Poland. Design from a smaller city. Between design, art and business, or what happens outside the mainstream. Anna Ostrowska The exhibition of design and artistic objects “Kreatywni. Operatywni. Ludzie z energią. Przedmioty z duszą” [“Creative. Entrepreneurs. People with Energy. Objects with Soul”] could be described as a creative energy and an artistic mosaic. The…
The winners of the Brick Award 2019 We have the result of the fourth Polish edition of the Wienerberger Brick Award competition. The Jury decided to award the building of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice designed by Baas Arquitectura studio, Grupa 5 Architekci and…
A small rising wave. A summary of 2018 in a documentary about architecture Lech Moliński It is still a niche within a niche, but the phenomenon is beginning to reach interesting proportions – in essence, this is the description of the situation of documentary cinematography about city / architecture / spatial planning. After…
Exhibitions, conferences, fairs Since 2016 Berlin’s Architektur Galerie has expanded its offer to include Satellit in Friedrichshain: a district with techno clubs and alternative art. According to gallery owners, young (!) architects and researchers present their projects there. This year, Robert Konieczny had a collective exhibition with Christoph Hesse and Snorre Stinessen. About two…
