Tag Archives: 19th Century
Lodz – industrial metropolis in “Stadtebau”, 1917.
Rapid urban growth of this first industrial city in Russia western provinces (before 1867 known as “Polish Kingdom”) caused many architectural and technical problems, effects of inefficient legal structure of municipal government.
The pleasure garden
The history of Kalisz public garden is a story of modernity and public spaces constructed within. Desire, commodities, money, gender, race, power, Empire, history and culture: those categories shaped narratives of this modern “Eden” around the year 1900. To read more, follow the photo-link (Polish only).
architectural histories poland 