Architects and their Societies

• Druk: Warszawa, 2021
• Redakcja naukowa: Anna Kobylińska, Maciej Falski
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

The idea of looking at the architects operating within the cultural framework of the Habsburg Empire, embedded in this book, stems from our previous research. It has its roots in the research on Slavic peripheral narratives, conducted by the Research Group on the Slavic Cultures in the Habsburg Monarchy (http://uwhabsburgstudies.uw.edu.pl/), which has operated since 2011 at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies of the University of Warsaw. We studied the issue of peripheral attitudes towards both national narratives, created after 1861 by the Slovak, Czech and Croatian elites, and the imperial project imposed by Vienna and Budapest. Faithful to the microlevel approach, we looked at figures, spaces and social phenomena that do not fit into the stereotypical view of national historiography (Anna Kobylińska, Maciej Falski). The value of the book is in shedding light on quite many underrated or allegedly well-known persons, places, and buildings within a clear and persuasive theoretical framework. Original in its comparative perspective, as well as in its chronology (trespassing the demise of the Empire usually seen as a clear-cut caesura), the volume offers well-grounded hints in the interpretation of architecture. Written by specialists who convincingly provide synthetic information, it can be recommended to a wider audience interested in cultural phenomena. Going beyond disciplinary boundaries, the chapters sharpen the eyes of the reader and provide guidance in reading the specificity of places. Well-known monuments seem more complex and appealing. Provincial towns appear not as belated environments but receptacles of forgotten layers of modernity (Prof. Daniel Baric, Sorbonne Université, Paris).

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• Redakcja: Anna Kobylińska, Maciej Falski
• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-235-4991-8
• ISBN druku: 978-83-235-4983-3
• Liczba stron: 250

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Anna Kobylińska, Maciej Falski
Seismographs of culture. Prolegomena 9

Dragan Damjanović
Gothic Revival at the borders of Catholic Christianity: State politics, patrons and architects in 19th-century Croatian architecture 37

Anna Kobylińska
Architects from the periphery: Ján Nepomuk Bobula and Blažej Félix Bulla. Genealogy of localness 75

Dominika Kaniecka
Zagreb after the 1880 earthquake – The revived city and its architect 103

Maciej Falski
Architects of a provincial town 119

Jasenka Kranjčević
Tourism architecture by Czech architects on the Croatian Adriatic coast during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 139

Michał Burdziński
Poets who moved the air: Stanisław Witkiewicz – Dušan Samuel Jurkovič 153

Aleksander Łupienko
Architects in Galicia and the city. The question of history and modernity before World War I 179

Magdalena Bystrzak
Languages of interwar progressivism: Friedrich Weinwurm in Bratislava 193

Danuta Sosnowska
Beyond the limits – eccentric H. 211

Index of people 237

Index of places 244