Polish modernist Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is celebrated in Manhattan retrospective
A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak.
Patchwork: The Architecture of Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is currently on show at the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Center for Architecture in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
Photographs, models and images feature in the exhibit at the American Institute of Architects' Center for Architecture, also pictured top
AIA's New York outpost organised the retrospective in collaboration with curators Micha? Duda and Ma?gorzata Devosges-Cuber of the Museum of Architecture in Wroc?aw.
It marks the first comprehensive presentation of the work produced by the late architect, who is billed as "one of the most important Polish architects of the 20th century", outside of Poland. Photographs, models and images in the exhibit detail Grabowska-Hawrylak's lengthy career, with projects ranging from 1954 to 1993.
Building models top a table at the centre of the space
Among her accomplishments include a slew of housing estates and schools, built across Poland. She was also a key participant in rebuilding Wroc?aw after it severely destroyed in the second world war.
"From her participation in Wroc?aw's post-war reconstruction in the 1950s, to her modernist designs of the 1960s and 70s, and the postmodern aesthetic adopted in her later work in the 80s and 90s, Grabowska-Hawrylak's ...
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