Residential districts of the socialist realism period in Poland (1949−1956). Analysis, comparison and protection

Zuzanna Napieralska

zuzanna.napieralska@pwr.edu.pl
Department of General Constructions, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Wrocław (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6532-0361

Elżbieta Przesmycka


Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University in Cracow (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-9811

Abstract

The article analyzes four residential districts from the period of Socialist Realism in Poland: Marszałkowska Residential District in Warsaw, Kościuszkowska Residential District in Wrocław, residential Nowa Huta in Cracow and Downtown Residential District in Szczecin. These districts are analyzed in terms of urban layout, architectural forms, building intensity, and green areas. Common features of these housing complexes, characteristic for socialist realism architecture in Poland, were also examined. The authors also consider the protective methods of individual housing complexes. Each of the examined residential districts is considered in two aspects - the urban layout and architecture as well as the form of protection and it condition of the present day. For each analyzed housing complex, a map was prepared showing the scale of the urban layout and the percentage share of pre-war buildings, buildings from the period under study, and buildings erected in later years. 


Keywords:

residential architecture, socialist realism architecture, socialist realism urban planning, polish socialist realism, residential urban planning, post war architecture

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2020-09-30

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Napieralska, Z., & Przesmycka, E. (2020). Residential districts of the socialist realism period in Poland (1949−1956). Analysis, comparison and protection. Teka Komisji Architektury, Urbanistyki I Studiów Krajobrazowych, 16(3), 7–18. https://doi.org/10.35784/teka.2102

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Zuzanna Napieralska 
zuzanna.napieralska@pwr.edu.pl
Department of General Constructions, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Wrocław Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6532-0361

Authors

Elżbieta Przesmycka 

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University in Cracow Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-9811

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