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Designing holidays in the Polish People's Republic: socialist modernism in Ustroń Zawodzie holiday complex.1967-1990
Ciupka, Maria ; Ira, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Veress, Dániel (referee)
in English This master's thesis proposes a study of the history of architecture of Ustroń- Zawodzie, a recreation complex in the Silesian Beskid mountains in Southwest Poland, constructed under the auspices of the socialist government in the 1960s and 1970s in the Polish People's Republic. The paper examines the architects' sketches, projects, and selected materials from architectural journals and Polish media to investigate the role these representations play in the more comprehensive process of the production of space in the Beskid mountains in Upper Silesia. First, the Ustroń-Zawodzie's rich history is situated in the global and local contexts of leisure and leisure architecture developments in the 1960s and 1970s, emphasizing the emergence of leisure and leisure architecture in the Polish People's Republic as processes that developed in parallel to other post-war European states. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space and recent approaches to architectural research, a two-level framework for analysis is established. The first level of this framework aims to identify the conditions of possibility for the construction of Ustroń- Zawodzie. In contrast, the second level investigates how the Ustroń-Zawodzie space is produced through its representations. The analysis of...

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