Architecture - the creation and protecting of the hertitage
Welcome Tourist study-tour presents modernist architecture of Wroclaw, Krakow and Lviv, showing the monuments restoration problems in large metropolitan areas. Implemented with the help of academics from Wroclaw Technical University, Faculty of Architecture of Cracow’s Technical University and Architecture Department of Lviv city authorities. The example author’s program performed for Technische Hochschule Cottbus (Germany).
Day 1
Arrival to Wroclaw. Walk through Cathedral Island, Market Square and Salt Square. Modernist buildings in the center by Poelzig, Rumpf and Rading. Mendelsohn Petersdorff department store. Dinner and overnight stay in Wroclaw.
Day 2
City tour by coach. The Pudelmann’s market hall, Berg's Centennial Hall, the area of WU-WA exhibition from 1928, Scharoun house, Ernst May peripheral settlements, Poelzig’s and Rading’s residential buildings. Dinner and overnight stay in Wroclaw.
Day 3
Departure by bus to Gliwice. Visiting the Meichmann’s "mercer house" designed by Erich Mendelsohn and the church of St. Joseph in Zabrze, full of the symbolism of the work designed by Professor Dominikus Bohm. Transfer to Auschwitz and guided visit of Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Dinner and overnight in Krakow.
Day 4
The sight-seeing of Krakow. The historic city center with Market Square, Cloth Hall, Collegium Maius and the Royal Castle and the Cathedral on Wawel Hill. In the afternoon visit to the former Jewish district Kazimierz and former ghetto area. Visiting the museum “Schindler's factory”. Dinner with klezmer music in Kazimierz. Overnight in Krakow.
Day 5
Meeting at the Cracow University of Technology in the Research Department of secession in Architecture in Poland. Overview of the historical Krakow restoration problems. Visiting a residential area outside the old city center. The architecture of public buildings and private homes of the interwar period. Dinner and overnight in Krakow.
Day 6
Transfer by coach to visit Leszczynski family castle in Baranow Sandomierski, and then transfer to Zamosc, pearl of architecture and urban structure of the Renaissance period. Walking guided tour of Zamosc. After dinner at the Polish border side drive to Ukraine for overnight in Lviv.
Day 7
Walking tour with a representative of Lviv Faculty of Architecture. Renovation of the historic old city and its problems. Examples of the impact of the Vienna Secession in Lviv architecture. Dinner and overnight in Lviv.
Day 8
Continue exploring the city. Residential architecture and public buildings of interwar period. In the afternoon drive to Przemysl for dinner and overnight.
Day 9
Visiting the old town of Przemysl, and the nearby palace in Krasiczyn. Transfer to Sanok and visit one of Europe's largest open-air museums of the wooden architecture of south-eastern Poland. On the way to Krakow sightseeing the castle in New Wisnicz. Dinner and overnight in Krakow.
Day 10
Transfer by coach to Wroclaw and end of the program.