Professor Jakub Lewicki's publication presents an important fragment of the architectural landscape of Lviv in the interwar period. Its value lies in the fact that it presents the landscape of the modernist city of the short interwar period, the creators of this landscape and what was and could have been its future, but remained only on the architects' design grids.

When, between 1918 and 1939, the reborn Republic of Poland was catching up with the various backlogs of being long under the partitions of Russia, Prussia and Austria, there were then two centres for the education of architects. These were the faculties of architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic (from 1915) and in Lviv, where such a faculty was established as early as 1872 at the local polytechnic.

Lviv's architects went to all the centres of the reborn Poland: far to the west, to Greater Poland, they were active in Upper Silesia, they co-founded the city of Gdynia, and they also worked in Warsaw. The city of Lviv owed much to local architects. The economic collapse after the First World War was gradually overcome in the early 1920s. In the middle of the first decade of the 20th century there was a revival in the building movement. The periods of greatest expansion in the city were 1923-1929 and 1932-1939, and in 1937 one can even speak of a building boom.

Prof. Jakub Lewicki's book tells the story of the architectural environment and the architecture of Lviv itself in this period. Based on an extensive analysis of publications and a search of the Lviv archives, the author presents the architectural landscape of the city in the interwar period. He presents the most important trends in the design of new architecture, the most important investments. It also discusses the variety of architecture created at the time: from housing, through the buildings of city offices, schools, private enterprises, to churches.

Author: Jakub Lewicki

Year of publication: 2021

Number of pages: 544

Binding: Soft

Format: A4

ISBN: 978-83-66172-41-8