Prefabricated elements and typification in communist Poland
| Author(s): |
Piotr Marciniak
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| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium |
| Published in: | Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories [2 vols.] |
| Page(s): | 157-162 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | Throughout the communist period, large-panel systems (LPS), industrialised construction, prefabrication and home factories affected the imagery of Poland's spatial landscape. After World War II, typification and prefabrication in the building industry became a leading postulate and a way of catching up on delays caused by poor work organisation, material shortages and the use of traditional technologies. The first prefabricated large-scale concrete elements were used in 1954 in Nowa Huta, and in the following years similar housing projects were erected in Warsaw, Wrocław, Poznań, Nowe Tychy and Łódź. In the 1960s and 1970s, new systems were introduced. These were used to build several hundred housing projects in Poland until 1989. The role of concrete technology in shaping the form of housing was perfectly aligned to the ideology of productivism propagated in communist countries, becoming one of the most recognisable features of the spatial landscape in Poland. |
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