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Category: Architecture

Jurkiewicz – Astronomer/architect

This essay was published in the 2021 book accompanying the ZDZISŁAW JURKIEWICZ. OCCURRENCES exhibition at the Muzeum Narodowe in Wrocław … More

Modernizm realny około 1981 roku

If you read Polish, here is a long essay on ‘real existing Modernism’ in the PRL. Click here. it appears … More

Modernism and the Spectres of the Past in Piłsudski’s Poland

I gave this lecture in New York at the Bard Graduate Centre in 2018 at a symposium on Revivalism in … More

How socmodernist buildings became landmarks … again.

This lecture was given at the Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe) in November 2019. The theme of the event was the … More

Space in Socialist and Postsocialist Cities – Divided or Shared?

  This short essay was published in Helene Doudova, ed., Shared Cities Atlas. Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central … More

Art, Emotion and Activism in the Post-Socialist Cityscape in Eastern Europe

In 2014 developers in Kraków in southern Poland proposed the construction of ‘Nowa Cracovia’, an office and retail development on … More

Arch Wars, Cracovia, socmodernism

The Peasant in the City

This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More

folklore, peasant culture, Stalinism

Modernism Redux

In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and … More

Czech modernism, Olgoj Chorchoj, postmodernism

Interview with Herito magazine

In May Herito published an interview with me on socmodernist architecture in Eastern Europe – you can read it here.

Cold War, Communism

Empty Plots – Art and Environment in Latvia in the 1970s

This short essay was written for a publication accompanying the Visionary Structures exhibition at BOZAR, Brussels, opening in January 2015. … More

Pollutionists, Riga

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This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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