Wojciech Kalinowski jako autor syntezy dziejów urbanistyki polskiej

• Autorzy: Zarębska T.

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Wojciech Kalinowski as an author of a synthetic history of polish town planning

• Języki publikacji: PL

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Studies on the history of Polish town planning were initiated extremely early; textbooks concerning the history of towns, and containing a historical part, were published in Lvov already in 1916-1918. The first expensive synthesis was presented in 1931 by Prof. Tadeusz Towiäski. A third and revised edition of i Urbanistyka (Town Planing), his pioneering andexcellent work, which appeared in the inter-war period, was satisfactory. At the time, the Committee for Architectureand Town Planing initiated a large-scale campaign intent on preparing general plans for all Polish towns; such an undertalking was the first in the history of numerous cities. Several hundred historical towns, amongst which many still remained in ruins, were to obtain a scientifically arranged "historical town planing study". Some 400 such studies were competed in the following decade, disclosing numerous, up to then uknown and valuable examples of spatial premises, which required assessment and the introduction of a systematic approach. An outstanding role in work on such studies was played by Wojciech Kalinowski. At the time Wojciech Kalinowski worked in a team led by Prof. Wojciech Ostrowski, co-founder of the Chair of Town Planning and Architecture, who in new scientific institute assembled a group of historians dealing with town construction; future Prof. Stanisaw Trawkowski and i Wojciech Kalinowski embarked upon research into Polish nineteenth-century town planning. Several years later, after the establishment of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ostrowski organized an independent Departament for the Theory of Architecture and Town Planning, which employed some of the workers of the Instytute. Tke numerous tasks of the Chair included a synthetic history of Polish town planning. Wojciech Kalinowski did not leave the Institute and undertook, oryginally with Stanisaw Trawkowski and then independently, work on an outline history of town construction in Poland. At this time, he already had at his disposal a four-pqrt academic textbook by Wacaw Ostrowski which, similarly to the publication by t Towiäski, presented Polish town planning within an European context. This excellent textbook was, however, extremely concise. In 1963, Kalinowski added to a copious study on town planning in the Kingdom of Poland during the first half of the nineteenth century, published in 1956 together with E. Trawkowski, his own contribution entitled Miasta Polski w XVi i pierwszej poowie w XVIIw. [Polish Towns in the Sixteenth Century and the First Half of the Seventeenth Century], and initiated work on three other periods in Polish town planing, which remained unpublished. Nothwithstanding preparations of an extensive synthetic study, both W. Ostrowski and W. Kalinowski wrote its abbreviated version. In 1966, the first of the two authors published a large, 46 pages-long chapter in a book on town and spatial planning. The publication, little known at home,was issued in New York, making avilable knowledge about town planning in Poland to wide groups of foreign readers. At the same time W.Kalinowski issued an extremely abbreviated script for students of the conservation of historical monuments at the Mikoaj Kopernik University in Toruä. Keeping in mind the reader and his own interests, the author took into account, as widely as possible, the new results of archelogical research and most recent monographic studies concerning assorted towns. The begining of the 1970s witnessed the appearance of two interpretations of the topic in question: Zarys historii budowy miast [An Outline History of Town Construction, 1971] by Prof. Tadeusz Wr˘bel, and the greatly expanded study by W. Kalinowski Issued in 1972 in Philadelphia as part of the seventh volume of the International History of City Development, edited by Prof. E. A. Gutkind. This is a relatively extensive version of the history of town construction in Poland; althout the Gutkind study did not win greater popularity outside America, it is certainly a significant work confronting town planning accomplishments from numerous countries all other the world. The last synthetic albeit concise (31 page-long) statement made by Kalinowski is the introductory chapter, published in 1986, to the first volume of Zabytki urbanistyki i architektury w Polsce [Monuments of Town Planning and Architecture in Poland], edited by him; this volume was to constitute part of a larger publications edited by Prof. Wiktor Zin. Up to the day the chapter entitled Rozw˘j miast w Polsce [The development of towns in Poland] remains one of the most up-to-date interpretations of the entire history of Polish urban planning, with the exception of textbooks. A synthesis proved to be an extremely difficult task, still awaiting completion; several extremely importanat steps in its direction werw made by Wojciech Kalinowski.

• Wydawca: Komitet Architektury i Urbanistyki PAN ; Politechnika Warszawska, Wydział Architektury
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki
• Rocznik: 1998
• Tom: T. 43, z. 1-2
• Strony: 17--22

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Zarębska T.