Aleksandra Zawistowska - Identity: 100 years of Polish architecture

Exhibition The exhibition organised on the occasion of 100 years of Polish independence took place in five locations in parallel. Each of them presented a different chapter from the recent 100 years of Polish architecture history, focusing on the issues of art (Cracow), power (Warsaw), society (Lublin), transfer (Poznań) and change (Katowice). Curators: Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk, Grzegorz Mika, Marcin Semeniuk, Karol Krupa, Alicja Gzowska, Jakub Świerzawski. Exhibition design: CENTRALA with Aleksandra Zawistowska, Billy Morgan, Julia Lipińska, Kamil Urban Graphic design: Tomasz Bersz and Aleksandra Zawistowska Organised by National Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning (NIAiU). My roles in the project were: graphic design of infographics, signage systems and communication materials, also the the execution of architectural models, based on the analysis of archival drawings and historical photos: - Polish pavilion for the 1925 World’s Fair in Paris - restaurant pavilion in Kraków, 1936 - villa in Kraków, 1936 - interactive educational model of housing estate on Kubusia Puchatka Street in Warsaw - interactive educational model of the Piastowskie housing estate in Lublin - Warsaw’s Praga II housing estate and the zoo, 1958 - two typical three-room apartments in prefabricated mass housing: ‘M3’ from 1970s and ‘M3’ from 1980s - Palm House in Gliwice by Andrzej Musialik, 1982-98

2020

Art

The exhibition took place in former Cracovia hotel, an iconic postwar modernist designed by Witold Cęckiewicz in Cracow.

Power

The exhibition took place in postmodern seat of BUW (The University of Warsaw Library) designed by Marek Budzyński and Zbigniew Badowski in Warsaw.

Society

The exhibition took place in recently constructed Centrum Spotkania Kultur (Centre for the Meeting of Cultures) designed by Bolesław Stelmach in Lublin.