TY - JOUR TI - On selected living spaces that function in contemporary urban cultural landscape AU - Olenderek, Joanna AU - Olenderek, Maciej TI - On selected living spaces that function in contemporary urban cultural landscape AB - The authors of the article describe selected examples of living spaces shaped and constructed in the 20th and 21st century and functioning to the present day in the city landscape. They try to explain and evaluate references to the building philosophy and design ethics. They pay particular attention to the processes of manipulation and respect for nature and open spaces. It was presented on the examples of the historical interwar housing estates in Łódź Mątwiłł Mirecki and Werkbund in Wrocław and the Zlin garden city by the Bata Company. The Bata Shoe Factory changed the shape of the entire city into a functioning space, with architecture conditioning every aspect of life. The period of post-war urban thought was presented on the model of the Sadów Żoliborskie estate and the innovative idea of the 1970s on the example of the competition for the Ursynów estate in Warsaw. It was based on the idea of a garden city and its presentation in the 1980s by creating green, low open housing estates as part of government commissions. Although these ideas were not realized, the idea, thought and desire remained. The respect for green areas of fundamental importance for the character of the place was presented on the example of the passive house complex in Konstantynów Łódzki or the Aspern estate in Vienna. The importance of respect for landscape values was emphasized, and the relationship between space, architecture and nature was explained. An attempt was made to find the main elements of space, which was of paramount importance for the preservation of values superior to the natural environment and architecture. VL - 2021 IS - 34/2021 PY - 2021 SN - 1731-2442 C1 - 2543-8700 SP - 58 EP - 77 DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.21.006.13645 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/on-selected-living-spaces-that-function-in-contemporary-urban-cultural-landscape KW - urban planning KW - housing architecture KW - sustainable environment KW - cultural landscape of the city