Architectural tour with Filip Springer

During the three-week opening of the new MSN Warsaw building, we invite you to a series of excursions led by invited guests and experts who will describe the building’s architecture from a historical perspective, contemporary museum design, the context of Plac Defilad and the Palace of Culture, the transformation of Warsaw over the past few decades, and the challenges facing architecture today.

View the new MSN Warsaw building with Filip Springer.

Filip Springer was born in 1982 in Poznań. He is a writer and photographer, an archeology graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University, and winner of a stipend for the 7th Agency Masterclass in Milan.

He is the author of books on architecture and space. His first book, History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town (2011), was nominated for the Nike Literary Award, the Ryszard Kapuściński Award, the Gdynia Literary Award, and the Angelus Central European Literature Award. He was awarded stipends by the National Centre for Culture Poland and the Ryszard Kapuściński Herodotus Foundation.

Springer’s books have been translated into English, German, Hungarian and Russian. He is the program director of the Reportage Institute in Warsaw, cofounder of the Ecopoetics School (along with Prof. Julia Fiedorczuk), instigator and cofounder of the literary festival On the Road, and curator of the project “Snapshots: A Photographic Archive of Revitalization.”

His most recent book, The Gray Hour: Time for a New Architecture (Karakter 2024), describes how architecture impacts climate change and whether we can also use architecture to combat the same phenomenon.