Mazovia Regional Studies 2016/19

Adriana Barbara Cieślak

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19

Vol no: 19

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It is with great pleasure that I present to you the nineteenth issue of the scientific periodical MAZOWSZE Regional Studies. Remaining in the service of science, we constantly strive to develop and reach for the latest tools that determine publishing quality. I am pleased to announce that the publisher of our periodical, the Mazovian Office of Regional Planning in Warsaw, has joined the international publisher association CrossRef – Publishers International Linking Association Inc. (PILA) – and has received a DOI (digital object identifier) number.

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Hanka Zaniewska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.01

Vol no: 19

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The process of urbanization of the Polish settlement network became apparent during the period of social and economic transformation, which was reflected in the creation of 87 new cities between 1989 and 2011. Most of them are small cities with a population of less than 5,000, which had municipal rights in the past, lost for political, economic, as well as administrative reasons.

Hanka Zaniewska, Uwarunkowania przestrzenne, funkcjonalne i społeczne decydujące o utworzeniu nowych miast w województwie mazowieckiem na przełomie XX i XXI wiekuPobierz

Małgorzata Ewa Sikorska, Izabela Sobierajska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.02

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The article presents issues related to the problems of revitalization of the main representative urban space of Węgrów – St. Mary’s Square, as well as the neighboring coupled interiors: the square in front of the “Lipka House” and Narutowicza Street. Development transformations related to the revitalization process are presented and commented on.

Małgorzata Ewa Sikorska, Izabela Sobierajska, Problemy rewitalizacji placu miejskiego w WęgrowiePobierz

Izabela Sobierajska, Małgorzata Ewa Sikorska

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.03

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The purpose of this study is to present the contemporary problems of development and functioning of the Sigismund Stary Market in Karczew, with particular attention to the historical overlays and aspects of its development, related to the centuries-old trading tradition of the market. Karczew’s locational market from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 20th century was the main representative and, above all, market space of the city.

Izabela Sobierajska, Małgorzata Ewa Sikorska, Problemy funkcjonowania placu miejskiego w Karczewie w świetle współczesnych potrzeb lokalnej społecznościPobierz

Zygmunt Szparkowski

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.04

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Architecture is the ordering of the constituent set of elements. It has always been perceived as an emanation of order and beauty. Usually the concept of chaos is perceived as a state of total disorder, confusion, disarray and disorder. In contrast, deterministic chaos, which is the subject of this article, is random behavior completely governed by law. Chaos has its own uncanny geometry. It is closely related to peculiar fractal shapes, called “strange attractors.”

Zygmunt Szparkowski, Chaos i porządek nowoczesnej architekturyPobierz

Bogusz Modrzewski

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.05

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The purpose of this text is to descriptively define the conditions for the formation of an architectural language of forms, especially regional forms, understood as the adaptability of the domain of architecture to local conditions, both geographically (local climatic conditions, materials, energy efficiency or low-tech) and humanistically, in relation to local building traditions.

Bogusz Modrzewski, Język i regionalna adaptacyjność architekturyPobierz

Rafał Mazur

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.06

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The article is a reflection on fashion in architecture. Beginning with its definition, the ambivalent nature of this phenomenon, which has accompanied the design process since the beginning of civilization, is presented. Using examples from recent decades, fashion is shown as an element that enriches the development of architecture and as an element that often takes control of architects’ imagination.

Rafał Mazur, Architektoniczna modaPobierz

Wiesław Rokicki, Anna Nowak

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.07

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The search of experimental architecture is followed by an increasingly more visible manifestation of the transition from shaping the biomimetic design to the biomorphic. The forms which architectural objects take, cease to be inspired by the aesthetics and the shapes found in nature. The shaping of new and unprecedented forms is the result of natural forming processes

Wiesław Rokicki, Anna Nowak, Aspekty bioniczne w poszukiwaniu systemów funkcjonalnych powierzchni strukturalnychPobierz

Joanna Gil-Mastalerczyk

DOI: 10.21858/msr.19.08

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The article presents the results of research and analysis, concerning the stylistic transformations of sacred architecture, using the example of Catholic religious buildings erected in the Archdiocese of Krakow in the 1970s and 1980s. Attention was paid to the most important architectural and compositional issues of sacred buildings, implemented in diverse spatial situations and against the background of ongoing socio-economic and political transformations.

Joanna Gil-Mastalerczyk, Pluralizm form i rozwiązań przestrzennych w polskiej architekturze sakralnej XX wieku (na przykładzie Archidiecezji Krakowskiej)Pobierz