Open AccessTHE ORIGINS OF OUR “HERE AND NOW”. MODERNISATION AND MUSEOLOGISATION OF THE WARSAW URBAN SPACE DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD
Author(s) -
Piotr Majewski
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0010.8813
Subject(s) - modernization theory , terminology , period (music) , interwar period , state (computer science) , first world war , space (punctuation) , architecture , history , urban planning , world war ii , geography , political science , aesthetics , ancient history , archaeology , civil engineering , art , engineering , law , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , algorithm
The article contains both description and analysisof the processes which had been creating the urban space ofWarsaw during the Interwar period (1918–1939). On the onehand, they include what is regarded as examples and symbolsof modernisation (avant-garde architecture, urban planning,as well as a “state-building” monumentalism), on the other– being developed at the same time, and described as today’sterminology allows – the processes of “musealisation”(reconstruction as a conservation method, restoration ofa historic urban ambiance of the town). The article also pointsto the continuity of both the processes in question and theideas that constitute them, always present at times of an intensesearch for collective identity and spatial forms in whichit is manifested (e.g. at time of the post-war reconstruction inthe years 1945–1956, as well as at the turn of the 19th andthe 20th centuries).