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Praesens

1926 – 1930
  • Szymon Syrkus
    supervisor, team member, architect
  • Helena Syrkusowa
    секретарша, team member, architect
  • Władysław Strzemiński
    team member, artist, co-founder
  • Barbara Brukalska
    team member, architect
  • Stanisław Brukalski
    team member, architect
  • Karol Kryński
    team member, artist
  • Jan Golus
    team member, scenographer
  • Witold Kajruksztis
    team member, artist
  • Katarzyna Kobro (Kobro-Strzemińska)
    team member, artist
  • Bohdan Lachert
    team member, architect
  • Marian Jerzy Malicki
    team member, artist
  • Józef Malinowski
    team member, architect
  • Maria Łucja Nicz-Borowiakowa
    team member, gallery artist
  • Roman Piotrowski
    team member, artist
  • Andrzej Pronaszko
    team member, artist
  • Aleksander Rafałowski
    team member, artist, scenographer
  • Henryk Stażewski
    team member, artist
  • Józef Szanajca
    team member, architect
  • Rudolf Świerczyński
    team member, architect
  • Stanisław Zalewski
    team member, artist
  • A group of architects and plastic artists who advocated a break with traditional forms in architecture and fine arts. In the field of construction, industrialization and standardization of construction was carried out in order to provide cheap, comfortable housing for average earnings. This program showed much in common with the Weimar Bauhaus, the Dutch De Stijl and the Moscow Vkhutemas.

    The ideas of the Praesens group were realized in the 1930s in the residential complex Warszawska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa in Warsaw's Rakoviec district. Members of the group also realized many other objects that today are classics of Polish modernism.

Selected dates:

1926

Create a group. The initiators of the Praesens group were mainly graduates of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology. Young visual artists also joined them. The group was headed by Shimon Syrkus and Helena Syrkusova was the secretary. In 1928, Praesens became the Polish representative of the Congrés Internationaux d`Architecture Moderne (CIAM).

1930

After the termination of the Praesens group, some of its members formed the group "a.r." in 1931.

1930s

The ideas of the Praesens group were implemented in the residential complex Warszawska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa in Warsaw's Rakoviec district.