O organizacji i programie kształcenia na Podyplomowym Studium Konserwacji Zabytków Politechniki Warszawskiej

• Authors: Roguska Jadwiga

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THE ORGANIZATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMME OF THE POSTGRADUATE COURSE IN THE CONSERVATION OF MONUMENTS AT THE WARSAW POLYTECHNIC

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The Postgraduate Course in the Conservation of Monuments at the Warsaw Polytechnic inaugurated in March 1970, is the only one among several counterparts in Poland, which has been active uninterruptedly for twenty years. Instead of celebrating its anniversary in 1990, the new academic year began quietly, with 12 students attending. It was the sole course of this sort opened in that academic year in the Department of Architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic. Postgraduate courses, organized as paid forms of training, have been declining in the past few years. In the face of the reorganization and far-reaching changes of the financial foundations of partner institutions, they can no longer function according to heretofore principles. In the past sponsors of the courses were usually large state enterprises whose employees often attended the courses and which covered the costs. The most serious partner of the course were the State Enterprises — Workshops for the Conservation of Monuments, an institution which was always specially concerned with raising the professional qualifications of its workers. The second important group of participants was composed of the staff of conservations services: voivodship conservators, employees of conservation centres and centres for the documentation of monuments. In the 1 980s. there appeared a new type of student — individual participants who paid for their own training. Up to the mid-1970s the course lasted two years (4 semestres). Then, in accordance with a directive issued by the Minister of Education which intended to unify postgraduate courses the duration was reduced to one year (2 semestres). From 1974 the course began organizing sessions abroad, in cooperation with Departments of Architecture at the Polytechnic in Budapest and in Prague. In the 1980s a permanent element of the course was a week-long session in Toruń, organized jointly w ith the Institute of Monuments and Conservation at the N.Copernicus University. The course was headed by doc. dr. hab. Andrzej Gruszecki, followed in the middle of the 1970s by doc. dr hab. Andrzej Tomaszewski, and at the beginning of the 1 980s by doc. dr hab. Przemysław Gartkiewicz; from 1983 it is directed by doc. dr hab. Jadwiga Roguska. During the twenty years of its activity, the programme of the course evolved and was adapted to the professional composition of the students and the needs of the conservators. In the 1 990/1991 academic year the curriculum was composed of: 1. theory of conservation of monuments, 2. history of architecture and construction in Poland (exam); 3. history of urban construction, revalorization and the protection of the cultural environment; 4. contemporary conservation in Poland and the world; 5. the range of conservation work (exam); 6. problems of construction, detail and equipment, 7. technical problems of the conservation of monuments, (exam); 8. conservation and the methodies of studying monuments, and 9. conservation planning. In the 1984-1990 period 124 students of the course presented diploma dissertations. The enclosed list includes the namse of the graduates, topics of the diploma dissertations and names of the professors.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1991
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 254-260

Dates

published

1991

Contributors

author

Roguska Jadwiga

• doc. dr hab., Wydział Architektury Politechniki Warszawskiej

References

• Jan Zachwatowicz, Kształcenie konserwatorów na Wydziale Architektury Politechniki Warszawskiej, „Ochrona Zabytków", XXIV, 1971, nr 1-2, ss. 123-125.

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ISSN

0029-8247