[B10] Juliusz Żórawski, "Siatka prostych. O architekturze nadindywidualnej"
Juliusz Żórawski, "Siatka prostych. O architekturze nadindywidualnej"
Juliusz Żórawski, "Straight's grid. On super-individual architecture"
typ / project type: projekt wydawniczy książki, ilustracje / editorial design, illustrations, typesetting
redakcja naukowa / scientific editor: J. Krzysztof Lenartowicz
wydawca / publisher: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Krakowskiej
seria / serie: / Dzieło Juliusza Żórawskiego
publikacja / release: 2013
The Straight's grid is a rediscovered, previously unpublished text by Juliusz Żórawski, one of key protagonists of Polish modern movement and 20-th century architectural theory. Second yet unknown book, on which Żórawski continued work until his death in 1967. Because of the time of its writing this book is a development and a self-commentary of the author's earlier writings. Żórawski, using historical examples, introduced the foundations of his concept of architectural composition and the theory of perception, introducing numerous new aspects into this text. Many of them coincided with then postmodernist turn or critical regionalism – the book can therefore be considered as pioneer work in Polish literature. It has retained its topicality in many threads. Juliusz Żórawski, as a designer, left numerous objects of fundamental importance for Polish modernist architecture. At the same time, Żórawski was one of the few Polish architects who combined active design work with theoretical reflection. During the occupation, he wrote the book "On the construction of an architectural form" – an original contribution to the theory of architectural form and composition. About this most important work, published in 1962, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, a historian of philosophy and aesthetics, wrote in 1979 that “it is the most valuable book on the theory of architecture published in Polish. And not only Polish”. After World War II, Żórawski was active mainly as an academic teacher at the Faculty of Architecture of the Krakow University of Technology.
The design of the book, through the raw finish, introduction of an asymmetric column with original illustrations from author's slide archive in the margins, refers to the working convention of academic printing that the book was originally supposed to be. During the editing, the text was supplemented with comments and illustrations from the surviving diary used by Żórawski during his lectures and his previously unpublished photos from the family archives. The chapters have new illustrations which refers to the content of the chapters.