The Architecture Center Foundation, which has been operating since 2011 and is dedicated to popularizing knowledge of 20th- and 21st-century architecture, in recent weeks, like many institutions, has had to revise its plans for this year.
The foundation's statutory activities are largely financed by publishing and selling books. Unfortunately, the current slump in the book market has put the Center for Architecture's planned publications and events under question, including:
- another edition of the Festival of Buildings,
- a premiere architectural radio playperformed live,
- the publication of a comic book about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs translated by Tomasz Swoboda,
- a series of meetings under the theme "Gender of the Architect," including a visit and lecture by the author of the book "Where Are the Female Architects?" Despina Stratigakos [info],
- a new, completed edition of "SAS. An Illustrated Atlas of the Architecture of Saska Kepa" by Magda Piwowar with texts by Grzegorz Piątek and Jarosław Trybus, as well as a walk with the authors,
- seminar and the publication of "Principles of social design of residential neighborhoods" by Barbara Brukalska,
- developing a sound project - architecture for listening.
The Foundation also planned to publish Jerzy Soltan's memoirs titled. "He and I. On Architecture and Le Corbusier," who spent four years in Le Corbusier's Paris studio. The Polish architect, later to become a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Harvard University, recalls his period of cooperation with the master years later, allowing readers to take a close look at the workshop of the "pope of modernism," his design philosophy and daily work on the rue de Sèvres. The memoirs, published so far only in fragments, thanks to the favor of Jerzy Soltan's family and the efforts of the Center for Architecture, for the first time have a chance to reach Polish readers in full.
Another in the series of illustrated atlases of the architecture of Warsaw's districts was also planned for 2020. After Saska Kępa, Żoliborz, northern Mokotów, Ochota and Powiśle, the time has come for "PRA. An illustrated atlas of Praga architecture" by Magda Piwowar with text by Maciej Czeredys and Ewa Ziajkowska.
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