scholarly journals Działalność architekta Friedricha Fischera (1879–1944) w Gdańsku i Sopocie

Porta Aurea ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 91-122
Author(s):  
Ewa Barylewska -Szymańska
Keyword(s):  
Associate Professor ◽  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Medieval Architecture ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Meaningful Role ◽  
The Church

The person of the architect Friedrich Fischer has been somewhat forgotten, even though he played a meaningful role in the beginnings of the existence of the Free City of Gdańsk as its first conservator and the first head of the Ground Construction Office. Before and during WW I Fischer worked privately as an architect, mostly in the Gdańsk and Sopot area, and among chosen projects one located in Wrzeszcz, in Uphagena Street, as well as the architect’s own house at 30 Stefana Żeromskiego Street in Sopot can be named. Fischer was also a scholar who obtained a doctorate in 1910 and prepared a postdoctoral thesis, as well as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University (until April 1925). In 1918, he became involved in building administration, carrying out projects for the Housing Estate Office, of which he was the head. He created designs of the street now known as Hallera Street in Wrzeszcz and plans of green areas on former fortification grounds. He also initiated works on the plan of Great Gdańsk, eventually known as the ‘Althoff plan’. In 1923–1925, he was the head of the Ground Construction Office. From this period his designs of the first version of the school in Pestalozziego Street in Wrzeszcz and the unrealised fair building in Gdańsk are known. He designed the completed housing estates in today’s Zbyszka z Bogdańca and Dubois Streets in Gdańsk - -Wrzeszcz as well as several churches for the Catholic community of the Free City of Gdańsk: St Anthony’s Church in Gdańsk -Brzeźno, the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Głęboka Street in Gdańsk - Knipawa, and the Church of Christ the King in the small town of Piekło, in the former Wielkie Żuławy District. Fischer was active as Conservator of Architectural Monuments for four years. During this period the function of Conservator of Historical Monuments was merged with the function of the head of the Ground Construction Office. During his service as conservator the preservation of the historical form of the city became a priority The model of proceedings in the Free City area established by Fischer constituted an important point of reference in the following years. He was also involved in the preparation of the Preservation of Historical Monuments Act proclaimed in 1923. In March 1925, Fischer moved to Hannover, where he became associate professor specialising in medieval architecture. He remained in that city and at its university until his death.

scholarly journals The Peripheral Housing Estate as a Form of Urban Spatial Development. The Status Quo and Perspectives

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Pieniążek
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
The Third ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Residential Units ◽  
The Status ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Made In

Abstract Presentation of contemporary trends in development of such residential units as peripheral housing estates in large Polish cities, as exemplified by Warsaw, is the objective of the paper. Such units are compared with their counterparts being built in Berlin. Research was carried out in three housing estates in the western part of the Bemowo District of Warsaw, i.e. Lazurowa (developer J.W. Construction), Nad Jeziorem (developer DoR Group) and Villa L’Azur (developer Bouygues Immobilier Polska). The first two were completed at the turn of 2008/2009. The third is in the final stage of construction. All three are located inside immediate city borders. Within framework of research were carried out analysis of developers’ materials, cartographic materials from the City Hall as well as field research. The results were juxtaposed with research made in 2008 in Berlin.

scholarly journals Examples of modernization of historical housing estates in the outskirts of Wrocław – opportunities and threats

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 077-083
Author(s):  
Alena Kononowicz
Keyword(s):  
Dead Space ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
The People ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Historical Centre

Recent decades have seen increased housing development activities in the outskirt housing estates of Wrocław, apparently driven by a trend of city dwellers escaping from the city somewhere “closer to nature”. This applies also to Brochów and Psie Pole, former independent small towns with characteristic spatial arrangement. Once absorbed by Wrocław, these housing estates were subjected to on-going expansion whose size exceeded many times their historical core area. Restoration of the historical centre of Psie Pole undertaken by the City in 2009 has produced controversial results. The modernised old Marketplace has become a dead space in spite of renovated buildings and modern spatial development of the square. Along with the market stalls at the former bus terminal the people disappeared, too. Commercial traffic was moved to the rear of one of the frontages, a so-called “shopping arcade”, in the vicinity of trash bins; whilst the benches in the renovated Marketplace are most frequently occupied by homeless people. Modernisation activities at the historical centre include: restoration, reconstruction or demolition of old buildings, construction of infill buildings, that often fail to harmonise with their surroundings.Effects of the modernisation works carried out at the historical housing estate for railway employees in Brochów, where, for example, only halves of the semi-detached multi-family houses were refurbished; confirm the necessity to adopt a comprehensive approach to the renovation process. Elsewhere, thermal retrofitting with polystyrene left the facades of the buildings deformed and their original character was permanently lost.

Palaiologan Constantinople and a New Architectural Idiom

2019 ◽  
pp. 595-619
Author(s):  
Robert G. Ousterhout
Keyword(s):  
Church Of Christ ◽  
Clear Relationship ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Exterior Forms ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Following the reconquest of Constantinople in 1261, the city experienced a brief cultural revival, marked by significant works of restoration and new construction to reconnect the city to its past glory. Older monastic establishments were expanded, often with large chapels for the privileged burials of the aristocracy. The new architectural style of the period is best represented by the Church of Christ in the Chora Monastery, the best preserved project of the period, characterized by small-scale relationships in its design, picturesque asymmetries, and the lack of a clear relationship between the exterior forms and the interior spaces.

IV.—The Nunburnholme Cross and Anglo-Danish Sculpture in York

Archaeologia ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 209-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian R. Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Royal Commission ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Grand Total ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In 1915 Professor W. G. Collingwood completed his survey of all the Anglian and Anglo-Danish sculpture in Yorkshire. The Addenda to York published then added three fragments to the twenty-four ‘certainly or probably local to the city’. Since then, the grand total of twenty-seven has at least trebled. The main sources for this spectacular increase are the demolition of, and subsequent excavations on the site of, the church of St. Mary Bishophill Senior in 1963–4, and the much larger operations at York minster, begun in 1966 and recently completed. A full catalogue of the latter must await the completion of the excavation report. Finds to the southwest of the river Ouse appear in a recent inventory of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. Further sculptures were found in Newgate5 and All Saints, Pavement. The material for consideration grows steadily, and it is now clear that York was an important centre for sculpture before the Norman Conquest. This paper is limited to consideration of the later Anglo-Danish sculpture, which involves presentation of recent discoveries and reassessment of some of the sculpture described by Collingwood. It also includes a reassessment of the Nunburnholme cross, which provides parallels for many of the features of York sculpture, and is now no longer an isolated work. As there is much new material to be considered, the individual carvings will be listed and briefly described, beginning with the Nunburnholme cross, which serves as a key to the different elements.

scholarly journals To Build the City on Temporary Success

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Zala Velkavrh ◽  
Alenka Korenjak ◽  
Klara Otorepec ◽  
Maša Cvetko
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Planning Tools ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

Some urban spaces are more dynamic than others. While the city centre, suburban areas and consumption spaces are rapidly changing and re-shaping, other parts of our cities seem to be stuck in time, in a permanent standstill. Such areas include stagnant construction sites, green areas and public squares in old housing estates and many forgotten, marginal public spaces scattered across the city. Conventional planning tools might be too slow, too weak or too broad to revitalise such spaces. We propose a different, interventionist approach. Temporary interventions have the power to change the planning process, involve more people and require less time.

Determination of Open Green Space Usage in Housing Estates

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
A.G. Gel ◽  
E. Şatıroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Green Space ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
City Center ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Sea Coast

In parallel with industrialization and population growth, the need for housing areas in developing countries has also increased. Diminishing green areas in cities due to unplanned urbanization led people to search for new residential areas where they can meet with green and can satisfy their social and cultural needs. Trabzon city is located on the East Black Sea coast of Turkey. By virtue of the concentration of settlement in the city center and the problems it has caused, the residential areas have been directed to the eastern parts of the city. Kaşüstü is one of Trabzon's new and popular residential and commercial areas. As the study area, 3 different site areas in Kaşüstü region located in the Yomra district in the east of Trabzon were determined. In this study, it was aimed to determine the outdoor facilities and opportunities of different housing estates in Kaşüstü region. Outdoor activities, types of usages, preferences and requests of users in these areas were identified. Thus, outdoors in different housing estates in the same region and the usage types of these places were compared. In addition, new suggestions and alternatives for outdoor usage have been developed.

Car-free housing estate project – opportunities, possibilities, perspectives

BUILDER ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 276 (7) ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Szumilas
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Social Planning ◽  
Parking Space ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

The number of cars in Polish cities increases every year. Despite the coexistence of other means of transport, such as public transport or cycling - the car is still the favorite means of transport for many residents. The significant increase in the number of registered cars, which can be observed consistently since the beginning of the 1990s, has left its mark throughout the city, especially in the human residence zone. Car-free housing estates are an alternative. Residents consciously give up parking space deciding on the city's communication system. The main purpose of the article is to analyse the system of functioning of car-free settlements in Europe and in the world as well as to determine the factors favoring such investments. The complementary goal is to present the possibilities of implementing this type of housing estates in Polish cities, taking into account possible social, planning and spatial barriers.

scholarly journals The Conservation of Sixteenth Century Church Santa Maria of Montedecoro in Maddaloni

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Mariateresa Guadagnuolo ◽  
Giuseppe Faella ◽  
Marianna Aurilio ◽  
Mariano Nuzzo
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Structural Damage ◽  
Masonry Structure ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Bell Tower ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
The City ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
The Church ◽  
Effective Conservation

Santa Maria of Montedecoro is a sacral complex located in Maddaloni, in the south of Italy, and is one of the most important historical monuments of the city. Built in the sixteenth century, the monastic organism consists of an aggregate structure, including the church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the bell tower which is set back from the church, the sacristy, the parsonage. This paper concerns the analysis of all the degradation phenomena identified in the complex, due to both its deterioration state and structural damage. Particular attention is placed on the bell tower that shows different degradation of the surfaces, with large erosions and fallen plasters. The masonry structure, notably compromised, shows several cracks due to the rotation of the tower towards the street. Because of such damage phenomena, a preliminary investigative research was performed to understand the effective conservation state of the Church and its appurtenances. The obtained diagnostic survey data confirm the hypotheses advanced in the cognitive phase and have provided all the necessary elements for the restoration and retrofitting design. This paper presents the restoration design and the results of the seismic analyses carried out on the bell tower.

DIALOG Z HUMANIZMEM RENESANSOWYM W DZIEŁACH PIOTRA SKARGI / PIOTR SKARGA’S DIALOGUE WITH RENAISSANCE HUMANISM

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 405-424
Author(s):  
Alina Nowicka -Jeżowa
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Summary The article tries to outline the position of Piotr Skarga in the Jesuit debates about the legacy of humanist Renaissance. The author argues that Skarga was fully committed to the adaptation of humanist and even medieval ideas into the revitalized post-Tridentine Catholicism. Skarga’s aim was to reformulate the humanist worldview, its idea of man, system of values and political views so that they would fit the doctrine of the Roman Catholic church. In effect, though, it meant supplanting the pluralist and open humanist culture by a construct as solidly Catholic as possible. He sifted through, verified, and re-interpreted the humanist material: as a result the humanist myth of the City of the Sun was eclipsed by reminders of the transience of all earthly goods and pursuits; elements of the Greek and Roman tradition were reconnected with the authoritative Biblical account of world history; and man was reinscribed into the theocentric perspective. Skarga brought back the dogmas of the original sin and sanctifying grace, reiterated the importance of asceticism and self-discipline, redefined the ideas of human dignity and freedom, and, in consequence, came up with a clear-cut, integrist view of the meaning and goal of the good life as well as the proper mission of the citizen and the nation. The polemical edge of Piotr Skarga’s cultural project was aimed both at Protestantism and the Erasmian tendency within the Catholic church. While strongly coloured by the Ignatian spirituality with its insistence on rigorous discipline, a sense of responsibility for the lives of other people and the culture of the community, and a commitment to the heroic ideal of a miles Christi, taking headon the challenges of the flesh, the world, Satan, and the enemies of the patria and the Church, it also went a long way to adapt the Jesuit model to Poland’s socio-cultural conditions and the mentality of its inhabitants.

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