Modernizm, modernizmy i modernizacje w architekturze Łodzi międzywojennej. Przypadek osiedla im. Józefa Montwiłła-Mireckiego
Modernism, Modernisms, and Modernisations int the Architecture of Interwar Łódź

Author(s): Aleksandra Sumorok
Subject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Modernism; modernization; social estate; housing architecture
Summary/Abstract: Interwar modernization took on a special dimension in Łódź - a multicultural, multinational, monofunctional center that developed dynamically on its raw roots in the 19th century, on the one hand representing modernity (industrialization, urbanization), and on the other hand, backwardness in the sphere of culture, education and quality of life. Modernization concepts were created here based on Western European ideas, but they were not copied but actively modified. Particularly interesting in the context of the diversity and shape that modernity takes in Łódź are initiatives related to housing construction initiated in the 1920s by the city government. A new spatial and social landscape was created, dynamically reacting to what was happening around, both on a national scale (building an independent state; Łódź's new role in it) and in the region (healing and modernization of a center with many civilization backwards). The starting point for me will be, first of all, the estate named after Józef Montwiłł-Mirecki, one of the most modern and pioneering housing projects in Poland in the second half of the 1920s from the point of view of modernist form, urban planning and the concept of a social estate.

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