%0 Journal Article
%T Edmund Goldzamt (1921–1990). A Reflective Dogmatist
%A Skalimowski, Andrzej
%J Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.21.033.14797
%N Volume 66, Issue 4
%P 171-189
%K architecture, urban planning, Stalinism, socialist realism, PZPR (Polish United Workers’ Party), ideology, Warsaw, Sovietization
%@ 0023-589X
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/edmund-goldzamt-1921-1990-refleksyjny-dogmatyk
%X The article presents the biography of Edmund Goldzamt, an architect whose scientific biography has not been told yet. Born in 1921 in Lublin, educated in the USSR, he returned to Poland in 1952. Despite his modest design achievements, he played a significant role in the Stalinization of Polish cultural life. The ideological theses he developed (drawing on Soviet guidelines) were the driving force in introducing the doctrine of socialist realism in Polish architecture and urban planning. In addition, Edmund Goldzamt was a longtime theoretician and educator; he lectured at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology and had a scientific career at the Polish Academy of Sciences. After 1956, he revised his ideological views and devoted himself to research on the social determinants of architecture and urban planning.