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Existent and nonexistent cities

Publication date: 17.09.2014

Technical Transactions, 2014, Architecture Issue 1 A (1) 2014, pp. 255 - 274

https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.015.2465

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Ewa Węcławowicz-Gyurkovich
Faculty of Architecture, Civil Construction and Applied Arts, Academy of Silesia in Katowice
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-445X Orcid
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Existent and nonexistent cities

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For several thousand years, cities in different scales – small and big – have been created and built by various civilizations on our planet. Beside the realized ones, drawn cities – constructed in the imagination of designers and artists, poets and writers – have sprung up. Nonexistent cities, which have never been created and will never be created, carry some emotional values which are important to contemporary man. Drawn “paper” architecture is not just an art in itself and for itself – it makes a testing ground and a research field for the development of new forms, for the creation of new worlds. Unhampered by the conditions of living “here and now”, it facilitates a freer flow of thoughts, the realization of dreams, the implementation of a creator’s inner world.

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Information: Technical Transactions, 2014, Architecture Issue 1 A (1) 2014, pp. 255 - 274

Article type: Original article

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Existent and nonexistent cities

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Existent and nonexistent cities

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-445X

Ewa Węcławowicz-Gyurkovich
Faculty of Architecture, Civil Construction and Applied Arts, Academy of Silesia in Katowice
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3920-445X Orcid
All publications →

Faculty of Architecture, Civil Construction and Applied Arts, Academy of Silesia in Katowice

Published at: 17.09.2014

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