Gradually shaping for ages the rural landscape, according to the tradition and experience, is subject to the violent transformation. Confronted with the investment pressure, global process and progress in cultural landscape degradation observing in the 90s of the 20th century, it started to come back, very lively at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the ideas of regionalism. Since the mid-90s the landscape shaping and its preserving has been in the Warmia and Mazuria region actively and creatively undertaken by the olsztyńskie association the Cultural Community "Borussia". From that circle came out the impulse to invite tenders for the design of the modern house which had been inspired by the local tradition. In 2010 the competition "Twój dom - dialog z tradycją" ["Your house - the dialogue with tradition"] was organized by the Warmian and Mazurian Marshal Office, National Center for Historical Monuments Studies and Documentation (presently National Heritage Board of Poland) and Polish Architecture Association - Local Division in Olsztyn. The main goal of that competition was to find out and to popular some new models of the family housing for the rural lands which could have been a kind of the traditional building continuation. a point of departure for the creative interpretation of the most characteristic and valuable landscape and Warmian and Mazurian architecture motives was the monograph concerning the tradition of the regional housing and farm building. 184 designs from all over Poland entered into this project. Many of the participants made an attempt in creative and modern interpretation of the historical motives both in the form and the details and being also inspired by the farm buildings. Prized (4) and awarded (24) projects were prepared to be sold and have also been presented in the catalogue which was distributed in the region. The competition organizers believ, that the designs will wind the purchasers and the constructed houses will soon appear in the Warmian and Mazurian region raising its landscape value.
Region warmińsko-mazurski wyróżnia się nie tylko w skali Polski, ale też i Europy pod względem ilości oraz stanu zachowania alei przydrożnych, Mają one znaczenie historyczne, krajobrazowe oraz pełnią ważne funkcje komunikacyjne, informacyjne i przyrodnicze.
The 20th century has fundamentally changed the Warmian and Mazurian urban landscape. Only within the space of one hundred years, this territory has been twice suffered the war damage. The first time, in 1914 – during the Russian army offensive 35 East Prussian towns were destroyed, next time, during the winter and spring of 1945 – as the results of the Soviet army activities and post‐war economy, most of Warmian and Mazurian historical urban complexes suffered huge losses again. In both cases, the post‐war rebuilding was conducted on a great scale and with significant urban landscape results. The last strong note appearing at the turn of the 21st century were some investment activities which were taken just as in violent and significant way without any rules in protecting the public view and spatial or architectural value. The result of such activities was the erasing of the historical town nature and the demotion of its value. Szczytno is one of the small town centers situated on the territory of the Southern Mazuria (the seat of the county, the area – 9,96 km2, the population – 25 759). At the turn of the 20th century, this rapidly developing town, destroyed and rebuilt twice during the 20th century, violently changed its view on the eve of the 21st century. It is a kind of classical example of the changes and processes to which Warmian and Mazurian urban complexes were and still are subjected. These processes are still accompanied by the same problems and questions – how to adjust modern civilization standards and requires to the tradition and past value. With such problems it must has been wrestled during the both of the past‐war town’s rebuilding. The first rebuilding was accompanied with the efforts in referring to the local, building tradition, whereas the next one was quite opposite to the past cultural patterns. In both cases also modernity and landscape modernization were the distinctive background. The analysis of these processes, their ideological, economic and organizing frames is a kind of attempt to answer the general question – how to manage the town’s landscape.
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