The need to protect the contemporary heritage, including the resource of the most valuable objects of architecture and urban planning, which must be necessary and delivered to generations, is unprecedented and equally important as for the heritage of distant times. The article analyzes and evaluates the current legal and factual protection of contemporary cultural goods in Poland. Since 2003, the protection of contemporary cultural goods has legal force and is included in the tasks of spatial planning. However, the results of the analyzes turn out to be ambiguous – both excellent and unsatisfactory. For this reason, the aim of the article is to try to answer the question – why the effects of contemporary activities lead to unsuccessful modernization and disintegration of buildings, violations of their artistic and historical values, and even the demolition of some of the most important icons of contemporary Polish architecture.
Joanna Gil-Mastalerczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology (CUT), she obtained a diploma from the RIBA – Royal Institute of British Architects (2020) – with the first place, she graduated in the field of Conservation of Monuments of Architecture and Urban Planning (FA-CUT 2001). She defended her doctorate and habilitation in 2013 and 2019, respectively (FA-CUT). He is a practicing architect and professor at the Kielce University of Technology (KUT). From 2021, she is the head of the Department of Theory and Architectural and Urban Design.
M. J. Żychowska