Tadeusz Stryjeński i konkurs na projekt schroniska dla osieroconych i zaniedbanych chłopców z Fundacji im. ks. Aleksandra Lubomirskiego w Krakowie
Tadeusz Stryjeński and the Contest for the Design of a Shelter for the Neglected Boys from the Prince Aleksander Lubomirski Foundation in Kraków

Summary/Abstract: Tadeusz Stryjeński (1849-1943) was one of the most interesting and the most hard-working architects from Galicia. He was an active architect from 1878 until the 1930s. He was an author of over one hundred various objects (mainly public buildings and tenements) built in the territory of Kraków. Architectonic contests were an important part in his professional activity. Tadeusz Stryjeński took part in twenty five contests and won in nine. For some reason independent of him he managed to implement only the plans from his first contest for the Contest for the design of a shelter for the neglected boys from the Prince Aleksander Lubomirski Foundation. The paper dwells on the history of the contest and traces the history of the building of the shelter according to the press of that time (one of the most interesting examples of neo-Renaissance in the monumental architecture of Kraków at the end of the nineteenth century). The text is preceded by some considerations on the principles of organising contests and the role of the Circles of Polish Architects in Warszawa and in Lvov, the Technical Society in Kraków. These organisations played an important role in establishing (in December 1908) the Delegation of Polish Architects, an organisation designed mainly to defend architects in their jobs and solve the problems of their milieu, including the touchy question of the contests. In all these activities Tadeusz Stryjeński took an active part.

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