Dorota Sikora
Technical Transactions, Architektecture Issue 1-A (5) 2016, 2016, pp. 3-13
https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.16.073.5437In the 17th century links between residence, garden and landscape were essential. Landscape quality was a key criterion for the choice of location for a palace and garden. e ideal location for Warsaw and its suburbs in this regard was the Warsaw Escarpment. e 18th century residence was inscribed in the landscape of Warsaw di erently – it was coupled to interconnected systems reaching beyond the limits of palace gardens, embracing also the urban and suburban built up areas.
Dorota Sikora
Technical Transactions, Architecture Issue 5 A (10) 2014, 2014, pp. 255-270
https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.158.3246The article provides an overview of historic parks and gardens in Poland, including a percentage breakdown of particular categories of site, as determined from data held by the National Heritage Board of Poland. The most common reasons for the degradation of these heritage properties are identified as arising from the existing legal situation, a lack of social awareness regarding their value, lack of good models of conservation work in historic parks in Poland, underfunding of this group of sites, and problems associated with the protection of landscape contexts.
Dorota Sikora
Technical Transactions, Architecture Issue 5-A (5) 2015, 2015, pp. 275-290
The values which dictate whether a historic park is listed as a heritage site, and which justify the need for statutory protection, are its historical, artistic and scientific values. The lack of public understanding and respect for these values, and the failure to perceive historic parks as works of garden art, and not merely as biologically active areas used primarily as recreation sites, poses many serious threats to this group of heritage sites.