%0 Journal Article
%T Architects, Builders and Planners in Kalisz at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries – An Overview of Profession and Background of Architectural and Builder’s Practice
%A Górzyński, Makary
%J Polonia Maior Orientalis
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/27204006PMO.21.004.15455
%N VIII
%P 67-88
%K history of architecture, profession of architect, urban communities and urbanization, urban history, Polish Kingdom, Kalisz, Kalisz’s governorate in the Russian Empire
%@ 2392-0106
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/polonia-maior-orientalis/article/procesy-przestrzenne-i-nowa-architektura-w-kaliszu-okolo-polowy-xix-wieku-zagadnienia-i-postulaty-badawcze
%X The aim of this contribution is to characterize a network of professionally-trained architects and engineers working in Kalisz, a westernmost governorate capital of the Russian empire, between the years 1867 to 1914, when the town was steadily developing in population and construction market. During the imperial period, the best trained (mostly in Petersburg) core of the local community of architects was employed by the state agendas, namely Russian Governorate, offering a good career prospects but only for a few professionals. During the 1900s the “railroad boom” of the local population and industrial expansion of the city attracted to Kalisz a dozen of newcomers, also young architects and planners. In this essay I offer an overview of the local community of architects by analyzing education, patterns of career or legal and administrative frameworks of their work. Last but not least, a detailed description of local builder’s environment and their firms is offered.