Jak ożywić masę muru? Znaczenie zakładów cegielnianych Kazimierza Granzowa dla architektury polskiej około roku 1900
Enlivening the Mass of Walls. The Significance of Kazimierz Granzow’s Brickworks for Polish Architecture Around the Year 1900

Author(s): Jan Maciej Nowicki
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: architecture; brick manufacturers; brickwork; historicism; history of building materials; industrial revolution; Kazimierz Granzow; masonry; Warsaw
Summary/Abstract: In studies of European architecture around the year 1900, the issue of brick manufacturing facilities continues to be overlooked. In the article, the author addresses this problem concerning the largest establishment of this kind, which operated in Congress Poland and belonged to Kazimierz Granzow. The author also demonstrates that the matter of enlivening brick masses through the utilization of bricks with varied colors, textures, and degrees of firing was of utmost importance to the architects active during that period.

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