To celebrate its anniversary, the International Cultural Centre has prepared a special, double issue of “Herito”. In the 19th century, the idea of the city as a work of art was reborn, becoming permanently linked with the eventful history of modernity.
This issue of “Herito” seeks to approach this phenomenon from a Central European angle. It traces the history of the modern city as a work of art in the context of political and artistic history of Central Europe; it searches for markers of its originality; and it asks what makes the city happy.
Featuring such authors as: Ewa Chojecka, Artur Klinau, Katherine Lebow, Ewa Rewers, Derek Sayer, and Beata Chomątowska.
Content
Editorial
Worth a Look
Jacek Purchla – The City as a Work of Art?
Beata Chomątowska – In the Flying Houses of the Future
Owen Hatherley – Landscapes of Communism
Małgorzata Omilanowska – Architectural Reconstructions as Works of Art
Michał Wiśniewski – Utopia and Exoticism
Monika Rydiger – Art for Everyone? On Public Art in the City Space
Jakub Kornhauser – Falsifying the City: Modernism and the Avant‑garde
Artur Klinau – Minsk: The Sun City of Dreams
Henrieta Moravčíková et al. – Bratislava: A City without a Plan
Ewa Chojecka – Bielsko and Max Fabiani: Erasing and Restoring Memory
Natalia Chwaja – Who Wrote Trieste? About the Pioneers of the “Paper City”
Łukasz Galusek – Skopje. All Over Again
Katherine Lebow – Nowa Huta: Poland’s Unfinished Utopia
Irma Kozina – The Residential Workers’ Estates in Upper Silesia as Total Works of Art
Elżbieta Rybicka – The Culture Zone in Katowice: The Art of Urban Landscape
Fedja Vukić – Modern Zagreb. Plan, Tradition, Identity
Prague: Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe. Derek Sayer in conversation with Robert Kusek and Aleksandra Szczepan
Ewa Rewers – Beautiful City
In Search of the Urban Utopia. Osamu Okamura in conversation with Martyna Obarska
Janusz Sepioł – Nostalgia for the City of the Future
Worth a Thought – Magdalena Bystrzak, Karol Kurnicki, Aleksandra Paradowska, Jan Balbierz, Katarzyna Jagodzińska, Wojciech Szymański, Jakub Muchowski, Beata Nykiel
Wojciech Wilczyk – Connoisseurs of the City