If you read Polish, here is a long essay on ‘real existing Modernism’ in the PRL. Click here. it appears … More
Category: Architecture
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
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
Modernism Redux
In October 1993, Charles Jencks, the leading advocate of architectural postmodernism, was guest of honour at an international conference and … More
Interview with Herito magazine
In May Herito published an interview with me on socmodernist architecture in Eastern Europe – you can read it here.
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
Piłsudski’s Architect
This article appears in the catalogue on the life and work of the Polish architect Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz in Kraków in … More
