DOI Artikel:
Martyn, Peter: The brave new-old capital city: Questions relating to the rebuilding and remodelling of Warsaw’s architectural profile from the late-1940s until 1956
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PETER MARTYN
Institute of Art of the Polish Academy. Warsaw
THE BRAVE NEW-OLD CAPITAL CITY
Questions relating to the rebuilding and remodelling of Warsaw's
architectural profile from the late-1940s until 1956
„That virtually all of this is new and unauthentic. My God, in several years' time no-one will
remember this truth, apart from historians who are obliged to record it somewhere (or other).
[...] We ourselves shall come to believe in it."
Joseph Sigalin1
1 Ze to wszystko nieomal nowe, nieautentyczne? M6j Boze za parf lot nikt o tym nie bfdzie pamiptat, poza historykami,
ktorzygdziei tf prawdf obowiqzani sq zapisac. [...] My sami uwierzymy. J. SIGALIN, Warszawa 1944-1980. Zarchi-
wum architekta, Warszawa 1986, vol. 2, p. 331.
Institute of Art of the Polish Academy. Warsaw
THE BRAVE NEW-OLD CAPITAL CITY
Questions relating to the rebuilding and remodelling of Warsaw's
architectural profile from the late-1940s until 1956
„That virtually all of this is new and unauthentic. My God, in several years' time no-one will
remember this truth, apart from historians who are obliged to record it somewhere (or other).
[...] We ourselves shall come to believe in it."
Joseph Sigalin1
1 Ze to wszystko nieomal nowe, nieautentyczne? M6j Boze za parf lot nikt o tym nie bfdzie pamiptat, poza historykami,
ktorzygdziei tf prawdf obowiqzani sq zapisac. [...] My sami uwierzymy. J. SIGALIN, Warszawa 1944-1980. Zarchi-
wum architekta, Warszawa 1986, vol. 2, p. 331.