The Liverpool School of Architecture is hosting a symposium on 20th century Polish Architects and Architecture.
Architects from Poland have made a significant contribution to architecture yet still remain unknown. The symposium seeks to uncover some of the works and proposals made by Polish architects and to investigate how architectural and planning ideas from Poland have travelled throughout Europe and beyond.
The Polish School of Architecture, established at Liverpool School of Architecture following the outbreak of the second world war, will also be discussed.
The Polish School
Known as ‘The Polish School’, it was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Poland and Commander-in-Chief, General Wladyslaw Sikorski at a ceremony held in Liverpool in November 1942, with the central aim to produce architects who could return to Poland and help rebuild it after liberation. Staff and students worked on numerous theoretical schemes such as the rebuilding of a specified Polish village, along with designs for hospitals, flats and factories .
Polish Architects beyond Poland: Migration and Memory is on Thursday 28 November, 1-6pm in the 1st floor library in the School of the Arts, 19 Abercromby Square. To registration and for more information visit: www.polisharchitects.eventbrite.co.uk.