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Publication date: 12.2020

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Editor-in-Chief Mateusz Gyurkovich

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Historia architektury i sztuki piękne w architekturze

Guido Vannini

Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 2/2020, 2020, pp. 7-44

https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000PUA.20.016.13077

As part of shared research programmes of the Universities of Florence and Krakow between archaeology and medieval architecture, this essay aims to offer an illustrated overview of themes and methodological procedures in the field of public archaeology, derived from activities carried out by the Chair of Medieval Archaeology of the University of Florence in Italy and in the Near East over the last two decades. These same activities are also examples of the first (2006) activities in Italy (and among the first in continental Europe) of the scientific and academic foundation of this specific field given by the British School of the UCL. The Italian-Polish collaboration particularly includes projects the University is working on with the PAN (in Warsaw/IAEO, Wroclaw, Gdansk), the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and the CNR-ITABC in Rome.

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Krzysztof Mroczkowski

Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 2/2020, 2020, pp. 45-70

https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000PUA.20.014.13063

War is a unique carrier of urban changes – not only with regard to the destruction that accompanies them but also in the context of the mechanisms associated with their social consequences. Not only for the destruction resulting from military actions but also arising from the mechanisms related to their political and social effects, including architectural and urban creation in a very specific sense. For these reasons, the Great War of 1914–1918 is now generally seen not only as a traumatic political and military experience on a universal scale but also as a trigger that gave rise to the great social changes that occurred in the twentieth century. The cultural change then forced on leaders, to take many different shapes often reaching for the clearly recognisable symbolism at the intersection of urban planning, architecture, historical phantasmagoria and religion. This became particularly visible during the so-called Palestinian campaign of General Edmund Allenby and after British troops captured Jerusalem in December 1917.

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Urbanistyka

Elżbieta Kaczmarska

Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 2/2020, 2020, pp. 73-92

https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000PUA.20.011.13060
This article presents selected districts of Valencia and the gradual transformation of their image. The formulation of an appropriate strategy of action and the effect of an example that were initiated by the construction of the City of Arts and Sciences have broken through the stagnation in thinking about space. Revitalisation efforts have been initiated in many of the city’s districts, as well as in its suburban zone. The great explosion of ideas and emotions also carried over to expanding the historical traditions of the city and the holistic, multi-directional approach to the subject matter of renewal, providing the city with economic stimulation. The author’s own analyses presented in the article pertain to Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences), the new development of the Poblats Marítims coastal district, the Ciutat Fallera district and the Orba district of the town of Alfafar, located in Valencia’s metropolitan area. Various proposals for transforming the spatial structure of these districts point to the possibility of conducting an experimental hybrid policy intended to reconcile economic rescaling, entrepreneurship and cultural regionalism in the planned landscape.
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Rita Łabuz

Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 2/2020, 2020, pp. 93-108

https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000PUA.20.012.13061
Rivers together with the surrounding greenery constitute an important element of the green and blue infrastructure in the city. The protection of these natural ecological corridors is one of the tasks of modern spatial planning. Along with the development of cities, buildings in urban areas are becoming closer to river beds. Various types of facilities are erected in their surroundings, including large-area constructions, such as shopping centres. This article presents research on how the watercourse environment is transformed by building a shopping centre. The paper presents functional and spatial analyses of riverside areas located in the vicinity of three shopping centres in Central Europe: ‘Forum Gdańsk’ in Gdańsk, ‘Galeria Jurajska’ in Częstochowa and ‘Šantovka’ in Olomouc. Various aspects of some transformations are presented, consisting in the exploitation of the advantages of natural greenery or its marginalisation, e.g. by backfilling or the housing of watercourses.
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Zofia Frączek

Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 2/2020, 2020, pp. 111-122

https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000PUA.20.010.13059
This article deals with the issue of using natural materials and obtaining inspiration from nature in landscape architecture in the context of upbringing and needs of early childhood. Problems associated with the current trends in the design of playgrounds and proposals for changes in this area are discussed. The observations and conclusions are based on the experience gained during a stay in one of the German Forest Kindergartens Waldkinder Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). Using an example of an alternative model of education based on children’s participation, the needs and preferences of the youngest are discussed, which can be used as guidelines for landscape architects in the design process.
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Tomasz Moskal

Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 2/2020, 2020, pp. 125-147

https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000PUA.20.013.13062
The creation of the city centre occurs through evolution as a process of transformations involving buildings and technical infrastructure in a physical form, and social and ownership issues in a non-physical form. When the transformation process is fluid, there is the opportunity to build harmonious systems and forms. When this process takes place in a revolutionary step, it is likely that it will leave a mark on the urban structure. The contemporary spatial shape of Śródmieście Rzeszów is the result of the process of transforming the original structure that occurred along with the dynamic development of the city in the post-war years. This structure reflects both the actions taken and omissions. The article deals with the issues of shaping the city centre in a rapidly developing centre, based on the example of Rzeszów city centre.
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Michał Purski

Przestrzeń Urbanistyka Architektura, Volume 2/2020, 2020, pp. 151-171

https://doi.org/10.4467/00000000PUA.20.015.13064
The author analyses regional architecture all over the world, in Europe, in Poland and in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains Region in order to detect and describe features that have a strong impact on regional architecture. Finding such features enables to characterize different aspects of contemporary regional architecture. As a summary, the author presents the project of a contemporary regional house in Masłów in Świętokrzyskie Mountains that makes reference to these aspects.
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