The exhibition Eternity and Moment: 100 Years of Polish Architecture was opened at the Department of Urban Planning of the Institute of Architecture with the participation of Rafał Wolski, Consul General of Poland in Lviv, as well as Architecture Professors of Cracow University of Technology – Kazimierz Butelski and Bogusław Podhalański. The Vice-Rector Oleh Matviikiv and the Head of the Center for International Education Nataliia Hots took part in the event. Yurii Bobalo, the Rector of the University, also visited the exhibition.
The exhibition features works of the best Polish architects of the period 1918–1939, when they successfully implemented their ambitious plans – designed buildings of modernist architecture, where urbanism prevailed. These are the building in Warsaw (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland and the National Bank), Wisla (Residence of the President of the Republic of Poland), Gdynia (Urban Conception), Stalowa Wola (architecture and urbanism), Krakow (Jagiellonian Library) and others. Among them there are Lviv buildings as well.
This exhibition has been to many countries of the world, and now it has come to Lviv Polytechnic, where there is a strong architecture school. After the opening of the exhibition, Polish Professors – Kazimierz Butelski and Bogusław Podhalański – delivered to our students the lectures on The Influence of Lviv Architecture School on the Architecture of Beirut, Gdynia, Katowice, Wrocław and Zakopane on the Example of the Works by Zbigniew Kupiec and Karol Szajer and New Huta: Modernism or Socialist Realism.
Rafał Wolski noticed that the theme of the exhibition was rather close to him, as his father was an architect and a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology. Such events are one more step in the cooperation of Lviv Polytechnic architects and the architecture schools of Poland.
