Archicollages - exhibition, films and discussions for the 40th anniversary of Ewa P. Porębska’s work in architectural media.

In 1982, Ewa P. Porębska began work in the Architektura monthly magazine, at that time an organ of the Association of Polish Architects, and since then she has been involved in all things architectural by writing, organizing exhibitions, initiating and creating architectural events, making films, and being active on the international forum as a consultant or member of juries in architectural competitions. Since 1994 she has been the Editor-in-Chief of the leading Polish architectural magazine Architekturamurator.

1982 in Poland was marked by the martial law, 2022—by the the world pandemic and the war in Ukraine. And in the meantime, transformation of the political system, access to the European Union, sweeping transformations in Poland and in the world. Archicollages is a personal reflection on pivotal moments in architecture, on architectural personalities, architectural ideas and reevaluations.

Ekspozycja prezentuje wybór trendów i idei, wokół których toczy się zawodowa działalność architektki – ideowe konkursy, wystawy, publikacje i debaty, traktowane jako istotne elementy publicznego dyskursu o architekturze; pojawia się też wątek utopijnego miasta idealnego jako szczególny przykład twórczości architektonicznej oraz prezentacja zawodowych postaw projektantów i projektantek w kontekście następujących w czasie przewartościowań w  architekturze.

Prezentacji towarzyszą dokumenty z lat 1982 – 2022 w postaci listów, szkiców, archiwalnych zdjęć, makiet i fragmentów filmów oraz programów telewizyjnych.

The exhibition presents chosen trends and ideas which appealed to Ewa P. Porębska in her architectural work – ideological competitions, exhibitions, publications and debates, treated as important elements of the public discourse on architecture. Also featured is the theme of the utopian ideal city as a distinct example of architectural creativity, and a presentation of designers’ professional attitudes in the context of redefining and re-evaluating architecture over time.

The presentation is accompanied by documents from the years 1982-2022 – letters, sketches, archival photos, scale models, as well as excerpts from movies, documentaries, and TV programs.

Ewa P. Porębska - an architect and architecture critic. Since 1994, she has been the editor in chief of ‘Architektura-Murator’ monthly, the leading Polish architectural monthly magazine.

Juror at the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 and the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2016, 2018. Jury member of the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in the years 2008-2010. She wrote very many articles about the architecture, she lectures on Polish architecture, among others at the AZW in Vienna, GSAPP Columbia University in New York and The University of Hong Kong. Porębska is the co-author of numerous exhibitions, including ‘Poland. Icons of architecture’[Polska. Ikony architektury]  and ‘Poland. Architecture’ [Polska. Architecture] prepared by ‘Architektura-Murator’ in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an official promotion of Poland. She initiated and co-organised of the LIFE IN ARCHITECTURE competition for the best buildings constructed in Poland after the fall of communism.