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Institute of Architectural Design, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology; Committee on Ergonomics, Polish Academy of Sciences

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Architektura szkół wyższych w Polsce. Współczesne trendy w projektowaniu kampusów akademickich

Tomasz Kapecki

Geographical Studies, Issue 162, 2020, pp. 13 - 30

https://doi.org/10.4467/20833113PG.20.010.13097

The introduction presents a brief historical outline of the development of higher education in Poland, starting with the Krakow Academy, focusing on the recent history, and discussing the achievements of the 1970s in more detail. It was an important period for the architecture of universities, which, after a short time of socialist realism, began to draw from the experiences of modernism. The main topic of the study is the architecture created after 2004, after Poland joined the European Union. A rapid increase in investment in higher education infrastructure was observed at that time, by some referred to as a construction boom at Polish universities. Over the decade, a large part of the existing assets was modernized, and several dozen new investments were completed. The article describes the achievements of this period, focusing first on the analysis of the architecture of individual buildings, and then assessing the quality of recently completed campuses in terms of their design, composition and spatial form. Architectural achievements at Polish universities are compared with examples of academic buildings and campuses from Western Europe and with contemporary trends in the design of academic campuses.

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Modern architecture of public use in New York City

Tomasz Kapecki

Technical Transactions, Architecture Issue 3 A (3) 2014, 2014, pp. 57 - 76

https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.034.2484

New York is a City of endless changes which are visible on every step; numerous of cranes visibe in the panorama shows that the economical crisis is a history. A lot is being built but the most spectacular architecture comes from the public utility creations. What is modern public utility architecture of New York City? What defines that architecture? Towards which direction does it tend? What is the mainstream function? Do buildings designed by leading architects set trends or maybe it is only demonstration of power and abilities? Does the confrontation of buildings from other parts of the world with New York City architecture give characteristics of resemblance or dissimilarity?

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