The future to build

Futurology and architecture in communist Poland

Emilia Kiecko

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The book in Polish only

How did architects and urban planners in communist times imagine the cities of the future?

The book, which is the first such extensive study of Polish architecture and urban planning tomorrow, presents projects from the 1960s and 1970s. Unique and previously unpublished archival materials show a wide range of well-known and completely forgotten projects, such as Włodzimierz Gruszczyński’s Ribbon Cities, Jan Głuszak’s futurological residential units Dagarama, Oskar Hansen’s Linear Continuous System, Wiesław Nowak’s Terra X or Stefan Müller’s Terra X project.

**Dr Emilia Kiecko - art historian, assistant professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Wrocław. She defended her doctoral thesis at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Winner of the Rev. Szczęsny Dettloff Award for young art historians (2015) and grant competition of the National Science Centre FUGA 5 (2016). She deals with the theory of architecture and urban planning of the 20th century and architectural utopias.

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