Architektura i Budownictwo was a Polish illustrated monthly devoted to architecture, urbanism, and construction, published in Warsaw from 1925 to 1939. Founded by a nationwide committee of architects from Warsaw, Krakow, Lwow, Poznan, and Wilno, it became one of interwar Poland's leading architectural journals, documenting contemporary Polish and international design, building competitions, and urban planning debates through richly illustrated photographs, drawings, and plans.
The journal was founded by the Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza Architektow Polskich (Publishing Cooperative of Polish Architects), with a founding committee including Jan Heurich Jr., Karol Jankowski, Juliusz Klos, Zdzislaw Maczenski, and Tadeusz Stryjenski, among others. Contributors over the years included prominent architects and historians such as Romuald Gutt, Oskar Sosnowski, and Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz. The journal covered major architectural competitions of the period, including the National Museum and National Theatre in Warsaw, alongside broader debates on housing, urban growth, and architectural education.
The scans in this archive span 1925 to 1933, out of the magazine's full run through 1939. The years 1934 to 1939 are not yet digitized here.
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Editors confirmed for the period held in this archive, per library catalog records. The exact date of the editorial transition between Woycicki and Woznicki is not clearly documented in available sources.
Founding editor, confirmed in library catalog records across every year from the journal's first issue in 1925 through 1930.
Took on a publishing role from April 1927 and is listed as the volume's editor of record for 1931. The precise date of the handover from Woycicki is not clearly documented.
Cooperative publishing body founded by the journal's original architect committee. Became the magazine's formal publisher of record from 1930.
Selected scholarship on the journal, and the institutional sources from which the database draws its scans and transcripts.
The reproductions are sourced from PDF scans of the original issues, provided via the Biblioteka Cyfrowa Politechniki Slaskiej (Silesian University of Technology Digital Library), Gliwice, Poland, which digitizes and distributes this title without access restriction.
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