This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More
Category: Architecture
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
Honzík – how high the sky?
This is an extract of a talk which I will present at the ‘Afterlives of Constructivism‘ conference at Princeton University … More
Walking With Hansen
In lieu of the full text, here is a link to a talk on Oskar Hansen’s ideas about the mobile … More
Paris or Moscow? Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s
In 1934 architects Szymon Syrkus and Jan Chmielewski presented their plans for the future of Warsaw at the a meeting … More
Modernizacje 1918-1939. Czas przyszły dokonany – review
This review was commissioned by the European Architectural History Network in 2010. ♦ Like a number of other exhibitions on … More
The Photographer in the Hall of Mirrors
This is an extract of an long essay on the work of photographer Nicolas Grospierre. It will appear in a … More
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