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Sustainable monument preservation in architectural education
PublicationThe aim of this article is both to present the need for changes in architectural and conservation education in a modern, rapidly changing world, as well as to outline solutions to this problem. In the modern world, the field of objects that one intends to protect is expanding. It is necessary to adapt the architectural education to these changes. Due to the current pace of social, political...
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Commercial function as a treat to the monument - 25 years of experience in the commercialization of monuments in Gdansk, Poland
PublicationThe principles of the market economy adopted in Poland in the nineties have significantly touched the resources of immovable monuments. As a result, monuments have become a product of culture subject to the rules of the free market; and state ownership, patronage and decision-making practice has now been replaced by private interest. Practical monument use has also changed with the shift in ownership of objects after privatization...
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Technical Limitations in Merging Secular and Sacred Functions in Monumental Churches
PublicationThe abandonment of churches and their adaptation for secular purposes is a current subject in Europe and worldwide. Most cases involve objects that were desacralized and then rebuilt as a whole object for alternative functions. Thus far, the merging of secular and sacred functions in one monumental Catholic church has not raised any issues. The paper describes the case of St. Catherine’s Church in Gdansk, Poland, where sacred function...
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Piotr Samól dr hab. inż. arch.
PeoplePiotr Samól is an associate professor (profesor uczelni) in the Department of History, Theory and Monument Preservation at Gdansk University of Technology. He graduated in architecture (M.Sc. Eng.) and history (B.A.). His researches are focused on the architectural and urban history of Gdansk and Baltic Sea region. He defended his doctoral thesis (scientifc field: architecture and urban planning) on the architecture of Dominican...
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Anita Jaśkiewicz-Sojak dr inż. arch.
PeopleAnita Jaśkiewicz-Sojak (PhD Eng Arch) architect, architectural historian and conservator, assistant professor in the Department of History, Theory of Architecture and Monument Preservation, Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology. Education: graduate studies and doctoral studies in architecture and urban planning (Gdańsk University of Technology), graduate studies in history (University of Gdańsk) and post graduate...
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Protection and renovation of public areas in a modernist city: the case of three streets in the historic City Centre of Gdynia
PublicationThis article concerns issues related to the preservation and restoration of public space in Gdynia’s city centre, which was designed and built mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. In 2007, a major part of the city centre was entered into the register of monuments asa historic complex of urban architecture. Moreover, in 2015, the area was declared a Monument of History. Protection of a complex of urban architecture covers not only the...
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Tomasz Jażdżewski mgr inż. arch.
PeopleTomasz Tadeusz Jażdżewski is an assistant in the Department of History, Theory and Monument Preservation at Gdansk University of Technology. Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture with the master degree. Student on Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Architecture
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Architectural Symbols of a City – Case Study
PublicationThe identity of a city is understood as a collection of individual features, which give the city its individual character and distinguish it from other places; it undoubtedly constitutes a cultural value, which should be cherished. In the case of Sopot – a spa located on the Bay of Gdansk, the mosaic of its geographical location, landscape values, urban layout and historic architecture has created a unique image of a seaside resort....
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Maria Sołtysik prof. dr hab. inż. arch.
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The general state of preservation of immovable monuments in connection with the primary function – comparison of 2003 and 2016
Open Research DataThe following dataset compares the structure of the register of immovable monuments in Poland regarding the general state of preservation of the objects in connection with the primary function for 2003 and 2016. The included types contain the following ones: sacred, defensive, public, parks, residential, farmhouses, industrial, cemeteries and others....
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The general state of preservation of immovable monuments in connection with the state of ownership – comparison of 2003 and 2016
Open Research DataThe following dataset compares the structure of the register of immovable monuments in Poland regarding the general state of preservation of the objects in connection with the state of ownership for 2003 and 2016. The dataset has been compiled based on the data in the Report analysing the state of immovable monuments (the report was prepared in 2004...