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Institute of the History of Architecture and Heritage Conservation of the Cracow University of TechnologyThe Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University of Technology runs a didactic programme in the field of Architecture and Urban Planning, as part of architects’ education in heritage protection and conservation specialisation. The programme covers the history of architecture and general and polish art, the principles of architecture and urban planning heritage protection with consideration given to design theory and practice, and conservation techniques and technologies, as well as the integration of contemporary architecture with the historical cultural landscape. The Institute also conducts scientific research within the above-mentioned scope, combining theory and practice. The main fields of the Institute’s scientific research within which its statutory goals are executed, are also closely related to the programme. The Institute works with the territorial self-government authorities of south-east Poland and the administration of important historical cities, as well as government and non-governmental institutions, such as the General Heritage Conservator Office, PKN ICOMOS (Polish National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites), and SKZ (Association of Monument Conservators). The Institute’s teams took part in the preparation of the prestigious conservatory designs of Słowacki Theatre, Stary Theatre, Academy of Music, the churches of St. Adalbert and St. Salvator in Krakow, Carmelite Church in Przemyśl, the Armenian Block and the Arsenal in Zamość and many others. In relation to the development of scientific fields that form the subject of its statutory activities, the Institute runs its programme in architecture and urban planning heritage protection at both degrees of studies, and also provides specialist education as part of post-graduate studies on the Conservation of Architecture and Urban Planning Heritage and Conservation, Architecture Formation and Interior Arrangement of Sacral Buildings in collaboration with the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. Individual doctoral studies are conducted, which are also available for students from abroad. The A-1 Institute has also prepared a programme of 3-year stationary doctoral studies as a response to the demand for specialists in the field of cultural heritage protection. Vocational studies are also offered in the form of the Photography Study and the systems of ‘permanent education’ as part of the planned establishment of autonomous specialised science-and-research unit undertaking projects aimed at the execution of strategic goals and directions of development of the European Union in collaboration with foreign universities. The Institute regularly cooperates with foreign academic centres, for example in Venice, Antwerp, Budapest, Florence, Rome, Prague, Zagreb, as well as Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine. |
Space Fillers exhibitionThe exhibition of the Space Fillers group, fourth-year students of the Faculty of Architecture, as part of the Gra jako świadomy dialog z miejscem i ujawnienie jego potencjału, czyli konfrontacja sztuki współczesnej z architekturą historyczną (Game as a conscious dialogue with place and manifestation of its potential, that is confrontation of contemporary art with historical architecture) project encompassed the space inside buildings, elevations, courtyards and gardens.  The designs of the students’ installations were, in nature, site-specific art, so they had been created with the intention of their functioning in the precisely determined site. The formulation of such work is always preceded by the examination of the cultural matrix of the site that takes into account its historical, architectural, topographical, environmental and social aspects. The above-described action was based on the highlighting of noticeable meanings or the discovery of meanings hidden in space, their transformation and presentation.  To use the precise artistic language as the carrier of essential contents filled with signs and symbols, the artist played a game with architecture. They confronted the time zones of the past and the present, and sometimes identified them with themselves. The architecture lent its scale to the installation, and the latter loaded the former with the power of its message. Thanks to their cooperation we have gained a new dimension of the site without taking its initial meaning away. The intermodal work of art achieves its own autonomy by the author’s combination of various media, touching directly upon the very process of mediation that depended on time and place, and thus was deeply contextual. This kind of public art is addressed to the mass audience, and becomes a social action. It is therefore necessary to achieve balance and form evoking the character of the site where society will recognise its culture. Art in public dimension should stimulate the need to stop, contemplate, more fully experience, establish interpersonal relations and interactions. It should still be understood (...) as agora, the ancient forum, that is the place of common cause, dialogue and compromise achievement (...). Pictures: Piotr Kołodziejczyk More on the website: www.spacefillers.pl |
13 - 27/06/2011
Space Fillers exhibition
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