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Technique: <\/strong>fired ceramic plates<\/p>\n

Dimensions: –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Object:<\/strong> The ceramic decoration of the fa\u00e7ade of Dom Technika NOT (Technician\u2019s House of the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations) is a follow-up on the building\u2019s interior design. It is a total work, in which architecture coexists with the decorations. The main hall walls are decorated with a mosaic composed of brick-coloured fired ceramic plates, which form an abstract, geometric composition. Identical round elements appear on the building\u2019s fa\u00e7ade. Inside, in the axis of the staircase, is an abstract composition of glazed ceramic tiles. A similar mosaic used to decorate the bar inside the building. The whole concept was designed and created by the visual artist Andrzej Trzaska.<\/p>\n

Place: <\/strong>The Polish Federation of Engineering Associations (Naczelna Organizacja Techniczna; NOT) was established in 1945; the Committee for the Construction of the Technician\u2019s House was formed in 1960. In the 1960s and 70s, NOT built new headquarters in many Polish cities to emphasise progressive Polish technical thought. Their structure was also meant to promote modern architectural forms. In April 1963, an architectural competition was announced for the development of the area of Rajska Street in Gda\u0144sk. The winning design was proposed by architects Boles\u0142aw Kardaszewski and Ludwik Mackiewicz. The idea was to build a department store (on the site of the later Madison), a large hotel (on the site of the later Hevelius), a shopping pavilion, a fast food bar, a Teacher\u2019s House and a Technician\u2019s House. Owing to financial difficulties, the project was scaled down to only the Teacher\u2019s House and the Technician\u2019s House. A closed architectural competition for the Technician\u2019s House was concluded at the end of August 1965 (with only six design offices from the Polish coastal area participating). The first prize went to a team made up of Szczepan Baum, Zbigniew Budzy\u0144ski and Danuta Ol\u0119dzka. Preparations for the construction started towards the end of 1969 with the liquidation of the only guarded car park operating in downtown Gda\u0144sk at the time. The earthworks began in 1970, the building shell was ready in 1971, and the completed building was commissioned on 30 March 1974. A plaque listing the founders of the Technician\u2019s House was placed on the front of the building. The contractor was Gda\u0144skie Przedsi\u0119biorstwo Budownictwa Miejskiego (Gda\u0144sk Urban Construction Company). The building, with a cubic capacity of 33 430 m\u00b3, had four overground storeys (with a terrace on the ground floor) and a basement. At the time of its opening, it boasted a 450-seat auditorium, eight conference rooms, a bookshop, a reading room and library with technical magazines, a club with a caf\u00e9, as well as a restaurant. The building housed the NOT Voivodeship Branch, Voivodeship Club of Technology and Rationalisation, a technical information centre and French technical documentation centre (with a language lab), the Budownictwo Okr\u0119towe (Shipbuilding) publishing house and offices of 17 technical associations. The modernist building was erected in the city centre, with the architects giving it original decorations through the use of various materials: brick, concrete, plaster, glass, and also wood on the inside. The materials and forms enter into a dialogue with the historical architecture of Gda\u0144sk. The Technician\u2019s House is a prime example of cooperation between architects and a visual artist, which was appreciated already in 1974, at the Le Mur Vivant<\/em> exhibition in Paris.<\/p>\n

Information about the author:<\/strong> Andrzej Trzaska (born in 1935, died in 2019) graduated in painting from the State School of Fine Arts in Wroc\u0142aw and continued his studies in Gda\u0144sk. Together with a group of students of Prof. Hanna \u017bu\u0142awska, he worked in her famous Kadyny studio \u2013 an experience that had a major impact on his future ceramic practice. Trzaska made his d\u00e9but at the Kadyny<\/em> group exhibition held at Warsaw\u2019s Kordegarda in 1957. However, the exhibition\u2019s success and the studio\u2019s enormous potential were squandered. Work started in Kadyny on designing ceramics for industrial production, but unfortunately it ended in failure. Trzaska worked on his own with the Central Office of the Folk and Art Industry (Cepelia) and in the early 1960s joined the W\u0142oc\u0142awek-based \u201cPrzyja\u017a\u0144\u201d (\u201cFriendship\u201d) Cooperative. Before Trzaska took over as art manager, the plant had mostly produced flower pots. Within a few years, he introduced many decorative and utility ceramics: platters, candlesticks, vases, etc. Despite a certain level of standardisation in the output of Cepelia cooperatives, W\u0142oc\u0142awek designs show the influence of Kadyny experience and Trzaska\u2019s individual style. He was also the author of various mosaics and ceramic decorations in Gda\u0144sk.<\/p>\n

Object condition: <\/strong>awaiting renovation<\/p>\n

Owner\/guardian: <\/strong>Naczelna Organizacja Techniczna (Polish Federation of Engineering Associations)<\/p>\n

Author of the entry:<\/strong> Kora Kowalska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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