Lata dwudzieste i trzydzieste XX wieku, a więc czas w którym Gdynia powstawała, nie są w historii architektury okresem homogenicznym. Stylistyka modernizmu lat międzywojennych - wbrew swym uniwersalistycznym założeniom ideowym - nosiła w sobie dużą różnorodność. Widzimy to zarówno w odniesieniu do Gdyni, jak i w ogóle do architektury europejskiej tego okresu. Niniejszy rozdział prezentuje cztery główne oblicza architektury modernistycznej...

The presentation of the exhibition “Architect Gustav Oelsner – Light, Air, Colour,”, which took place in Gdynia 1.04-29.05.2011, showed the clinker architecture of Gustav Oelsner in Altona. As a contrast to the white-plastered architecture of Gdynia, it provided an interesting background for the comparison of two different faces of modernism. The most important feature of the aesthetics of modernism was its cosmopolitan character,...

Modernism in Gdynia finds its roots in the European Architecture of 1920s and 1930s. The main centres of the style are such artistic capitals as Paris, Berlin, Wien, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Stuttgard and Hamburg. The article points out the connections between the famous European edifeces of those times and the architecture of Gdynia.

There are many reasons that make the work of Gustav Oelsner worth to present. One of the reasons is comparison of two different ways of development of two cities, Gdynia (an exhibition of work of Gustav Oelsner was presented in Gdynia in April and May of 2011) and Altona, were Oelsner created his architecture. These two cities has grown at the side of their big neighbours, Gdansk and Hamburg. They are harbour cities and their...

Gdynia is a unique city that is particularly interesting for architects due to its homogeneous architecture. The city, based on the structure of an earlier fishing village, was entirely designed and built from scratch in the interwar period, as was the case later for cities such as Brasilia and Chandigarh. Today, Gdynia is a modern port town that forms the Tri-City metropolitan area together with Gdańsk, the city of amber, and...