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The paper is a comment to the published in this yearbook of TEKA KOMISJI URBANISTYKI I ARCHITEKTURY memorial text „Żórawski’s School” by Janusz Ballenstedt written 50 years ago. The author confirms the actuality of Ballenstedt’s remarks on professor architect Juliusz Żórawski (1898–1967) as teacher of architectural design, and widens the argumentation quoting Żórawski’s proposal of the notion: “employment of space”, suggested by Żórawski for designers on the example of cinema waiting hall. Citation from the “Felieton” by Żórawski allows the reader better to understand the specificity of experiment which the architect performed when designing the apartment house at Aleja Przyjaciół in Warsaw, focused on providing comfort for the inhabitants.
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Krzysztof J. Lenartowicz
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Professor architect Juliusz Żórawski (1898–1967) is presented in this memorial text by one of his close pupils and collaborators. The author describes the air of lectures on architectural design given by Żórawski, and the mood prevailing in the chair headed by Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology during the first 20 years after the WW II. The case of the city house in Warsaw built in 1937 proves the avant-garde role of Żórawski in the Polish architecture between the two wars. The original text prepared in 1968 is published here for the first time.
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Janusz Ballenstedt
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The never before published paper is one of the last writings of Juliusz Żórawski (1898–1967), professor architect and theoretician of architecture. The notion of limited complexity introduced here relates to individual characteristics of the conceptual abilities of man. Tasks of architecture are based on prognoses, and this brings with it the risk of making errors. The author criticises J. Fourastié’s prognoses related to the Earth’s overpopulation in 3000 AD, which would force building new cities above the ground, contrary to human psychosomatic nature and habitude.

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Juliusz Żurawski
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The paper presents the meaning of complexity as a notion in psychology, and its influence on architectural theory in the 1960s, focusing on the notion of optimal complexity. A commentary is presented on the two texts („Network of straight lines” and „Limited complexity”) by professor architect Juliusz Żórawski from 1967, where he has introduced the term of limited complexity in relation to architecture, and where he criticizes excessively far reaching forecasts of future development. Żórawski’s concepts are parallel to those of R. Venturi at that time.

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J. Krzysztof Lenartowicz

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