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MODERNIST, 1920S AND 1930S INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE PORT OF GDYNIA - IN SEARCH OF AN AESTHETIC LANGUAGE FOR UTILITARIAN BUILDINGS OF THE POLISH GATEWAY TO THE WORLD
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The purpose of the article is to present the results of the research on the aspects of the Port of Gdynia modernist architecture aesthetics. Its construction was one of the two major projects carried out in the interwar period in Poland. In the course of analyses it has been attempted to answer the question whether an individual aesthetic language has been created in the 1920s and 1930s for the industrial architecture of the Polish port. The basis for the characteristics is the comparative analysis of the archival design documentation and photographs, presenting the designers’ ideas and the buildings’ condition soon after their construction. The background of the analyses were the changes taking place in architecture in the first half of the 20th century. Mainly of industrial character, the port complex has been filled with buildings in which purely utilitarian elements are predominant, but a deeper analysis has also proved a broad aesthetic dimension of this architecture. The examples of facades and interiors have shown a wide range of stylistic measures, both universal for the modernism period, as well as ones dedicated to the Gdynia’s port architecture. The discussed issues aim at a better recognition of the Port of Gdynia, which is a significant part of the national cultural heritage.
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- Category:
- Conference activity
- Type:
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Title of issue:
- 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2016 strony 419 - 426
- ISSN:
- 2367-5659
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Bibliographic description:
- Orchowska-Smolińska A.: MODERNIST, 1920S AND 1930S INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE PORT OF GDYNIA - IN SEARCH OF AN AESTHETIC LANGUAGE FOR UTILITARIAN BUILDINGS OF THE POLISH GATEWAY TO THE WORLD// 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2016/ Sofia: STEF92 Technology Ltd., 2016, s.419-426
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.5593/sgemsocial2016/hb42/s07.052
- Verified by:
- Gdańsk University of Technology
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