READING ADAM MILOBEDZKI

• Authors: Bania Z.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Professor Adam Milobedzki (died 2003), the author of approximately 200 publications, was an historian of architecture, and a man of an outstanding mind. He put a lot of fascination into researching the complexity of formal solutions and their transformations. Each material used in architecture was equally important to him, the apperance of those characteristics depending on complex economic, social, political and cultural reasons. The quality of his academic achievements is confirmed by monographic, as well as synthetic works on methodology, theoretical problems of architecture, urban studies and conservation, concerning 14th - 20th c. sacred and secular architecture in wood, brick and stone with analyses of structure and form. The first period of his academic activity was crowned by the monumental book, the most outstanding synthesis in the Polish history of art, 'Architektura polska XVII wieku' (Polish Architecture in the 17th century), publ.1980, presents the attitude towards introducing order into the process of formal changes by means of stylistic categories, the idea of progress, and local schools. Another very important synthetic study was 'Póznogotyckie typy sakralne w architekturze ziem polskich' (Late gothic Church Types in the Architecture of Polish Territories); it outlined for the first time the transformation of Gothic sacred architecture 1350-1550 in Poland. A change in methodology took place after 1980 under the influence of mainly Anglo-Saxon scholars, who paid close attention to semiotic and phenomenological aspects of the history of architecture, as well as to the anthropology of culture. Thus, he presented the highly complex issue of the presence of medieval architecture in the early modern period, writing a presentation of the history of architecture in wood on the territiories of Poland: 'Architecture in Wood. Technology, Symbolic, Content, Art' (1989) where he adapted the English term vernacularism in a very creative way. His scholarly professionalism in conservation works made him criticise very severely the effects of many reconstructions carried out in Poland after the WW II.

Keywords

EN

ARCHITECTUIRE; VERNACULARISM

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Historii Sztuki
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 30
• Pages: 5-14
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bania Z.

• Z. Bania, Uniwersytet Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego w Warszawie, ul. Dewajtis 5, 01-815 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA00982275