Poland shows off in Estonia
Architecture and urban planningPolish contemporary architecture is little known in Estonia – a shortcoming this exhibition and lecture evening will try to correct. The projects presented at the exhibition solve the spatial problems of different situations on a variety of scales. From temporary installations to large public buildings – every project has a story to tell. There are tower buildings in large cities, projects for derelict wastelands, but also suburbs and villages. Among the projects are buildings that the architects themselves have built as well as projects submitted to architectural competitions or buildings directly commissioned by a client.
The architects in the exhibition are all around 40 years old, which means they still remember what it was like to live in the shadow of the Soviet Union, but they started their professional careers at a time when both Poland and Estonia were entering the European Union in 2004. This generation has a need to discover themselves anew, to rediscover what it is to be an architect.
The projects are presented in 2.5D with models constructed using layered panels that show how they were built. The architectural studios of the exhibition include Centrala, Beton, WWAA, BBGK, JNA, BudCud, and Vostock as well as many others.
The exhibition opened with a lecture evening on Polish contemporary architecture. First, curator Łukasz Wojciechowski will introduce the exhibition and the architects. Born in 1978, he lectures at Wrocław University of Science and Technology and works in his own architecture studio VROA Architekci.
The second speaker, Grzegorz Piątek (born 1980) studied as an architect, but works mainly as a critic and curator. His biography of the legendary 1930s mayor of Warsaw, Stefan Starzyński, who was awarded the Order of the Cross of the Eagle second class by Estonia in 1935, was published in 2016. He was co-curator of the Polish Pavilion at the XI Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2008, where the exhibition “Hotel Polonia” won the Golden Lion for best national exhibition. Currently, he is writing a book about the rebuilding of Warsaw after the war, and a doctoral thesis on architectural and city planning exhibitions in Warsaw in the 1930s.
The exhibition will close on 6th August 2017.
The curators are Łukasz Wojciechowski and Mait Väljas. Łukasz Wojciechowski is responsible also for the exhibition design, while Michał Majewski for the graphic design. The exhibition is supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Estonian Cultural Endowment.
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