<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The architectural heritage of post-war modernism in Poland is often named a “dissonant” or “unwanted heritage”. Its evaluation and interpretation is often ambiguous, whereas the social reception, in spite of the growing common awareness of the matter, very diversified. A proper assessment of the phenomenon requires analysis against the background of twentieth-century European architecture. The InnovaConcrete project is comprised of multidisciplinary studies on strategies for the preservation of concrete-based heritage which provide for identification of the most valuable assets in Europe. The aim of this paper is to place the local Polish cultural heritage of twentieth-century architecture against the broad context of global and universal values and to present the methodology of the research.</p></abstract>

The architectural heritage of post-war modernism in Poland is often named a “dissonant” or “unwanted heritage”. Its evaluation and interpretation is often ambiguous, whereas the social reception, in spite of the growing common awareness of the matter, very diversified. A proper assessment of the phenomenon requires analysis against the background of twentieth-century European architecture. The InnovaConcrete project is comprised of multidisciplinary studies on strategies for the preservation of concrete-based heritage which provide for identification of the most valuable assets in Europe. The aim of this paper is to place the local Polish cultural heritage of twentieth-century architecture against the broad context of global and universal values and to present the methodology of the research.

Post-war modernist architecture in poland as part of the european heritage of twentieth-century concrete-based architecture

Institute of the History of Art, Faculty of Philosophy and History

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The architectural heritage of post-war modernism in Poland is often named a “dissonant” or “unwanted heritage”. Its evaluation and interpretation is often...

Post-war modernist architecture in poland as part of the european heritage of twentieth-century concrete-based architecture

Publicado en línea: 16 may 2020

Páginas: 5 - 17

Recibido: 17 jul 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.077.10856

Palabras clave
concrete-based architecture, post-war modernism, socialist modernism, conservation, 20 century heritage

© 2019 Błażej Ciarkowski, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Post-war modernist architecture in poland as part of the european heritage of twentieth-century concrete-based architecture

Publicado en línea: 16 may 2020

Páginas: 5 - 17

Recibido: 17 jul 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.19.077.10856

Palabras claveconcrete-based architecture, post-war modernism, socialist modernism, conservation, 20 century heritage

© 2019 Błażej Ciarkowski, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Palabras clave
concrete-based architecture, post-war modernism, socialist modernism, conservation, 20 century heritage