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Issue
2(70)/2022, p. 125-128
doi: 10.37190/arc220212 |
Editorial board
“Tomasz Mańkowski. Architecture is the most important thing”. The exhibition at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław
Abstract
The subject of the review is the monographic exhibition entitled “Tomasz Mańkowski. Architecture is the most important thing”, which has been presented at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław since June and is on up to October 2022. Tomasz Mańkowski (1926–2012), the main hero of the exhibition, was an architect, professor and lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. His professional activity, covering a period of over fifty years, focused on the issues of geometry and form, whereas in the structural and functional layer on prefabrication and housing. The exhibition presents the artist’s profile and his most important achievements, which were the result of independent or team work (including competition concepts from the period of the Gomułka Thaw, the Student Village of the Cracow University of Technology, a General Housing Program for Iraq, the Polish College in Przegorzały, the Village Children’s Hospital in Rajsko near Oświęcim, Radio Kraków). Tomasz Mańkowski’s architecture was presented against a broad background of social, political, and cultural events. The exhibition is distinguished not only by an interesting program concept which significantly contributes to the current state of knowledge about post-war architecture and urban planning, but also by an elegant arrangement.
Key words: Tomasz
Mańkowski, Polish architecture, exhibition, Museum of Architecture in
Wrocław
