Mister Warsaw 50 years later
Open Museum 2011

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites to a series of lectures by young critics and historians of architecture introduces the audience to the major phenomena of Polish architecture and design during the time of communism.

We will have a look at the then circumstances of making architecture and the paradoxes of socialist practice of “generating space”. We will likewise seek answers to such questions as why there were competitions for Mister Warsaw in architecture and for “the most beautiful infill”, and how the mosaics and paintings embellishing Modernist buildings were made. We will also present state-of-the-art research on the architecture after 1945. Frequently such studies were conducted parallel to public protests in defence of the torn down buildings.