Prof. arch. Józef Gałęzowski – Osiedle Uzdrowiskowe na Złotej Górze w Ojcowie

Professor Józef Gałęzowski (1877−1963) was an eminent representative of Cracow architecture. Beside many important architectural projects and realizations, he was the author of several larger spatial developments, presented in this paper. During the WW I he published his reconstruction projects (1915, 1916) of Polish villages and towns. Gałęzowski planned to take advantage of war destruction to raise standard of housing conditions, and propagated the idea by organizing an itinerant exhibition of drawings and maquettes accompanied by public lectures. He also founded the Office of Towns’ Regulation in Cracow and Lvov (1917). Gałęzowski altogether designed the following developments, which partially had been realized: workers development in Brześć Kujawski (1912), spa development in Ojców (1927), workers development in Majdan near Stanisławów (today: Ukraine), and summer development in Bukowno (1933), all based on the garden city model.