We are proudly announcing selected architects and designers for Polish Architects Exhibition:
Catharine Patha is Head of Exhibition Design for the Futurological Congress. She currently works in the field of art direction and design. Previously she was curator and founder of the Man in the Holocene contemporary art gallery and worked with Norman Foster. She has completed graduate studies at the Architectural Association and the London School of Economics
Welcome to one of the most awaited exhibitions of this year. Latest influx of migrants to the United Kingdom is so overwhelming, that it is easy to miss out on the level of professionalism they are bringing to the table.
Our event focuses on the most significant architects, interior designers, engineers of the last 60 years, who have come from Poland or have Polish roots and are working in the Great Britain now. They are extraordinary designers, thinkers, and artists in the defined industry. You are invited to experience their vision and explore a fascinating world of multicultural dynamics in architecture.
Architects are always working to the future. It takes years, even decades, for plans to be realised. The architect designs today, but with the consideration of forthcoming technological innovations and aesthetic developments. Inherent in the profession, the architect is ever on precarious footing with the future and thereby, necessarily, the past.
The Futurological Congress takes its title from the eponymous book by Stanslaw Lem, one of the world's leading science fiction writers and one of Poland's most recognised literary intellects. Published in 1971, The Futurological Congress is set in the then-seemingly improbable 106-story Costa Rica Hilton. With the world's tallest hotel currently sitting at 87 stories, today this scale is not the least bit ridiculous.
London’s Futurological Congress will be set over 3 days from September 28-30th 2009. The first day will focus on the past’s future, the history of Polish architects who came to study in the UK after WW2 and their visions of the future; the second day will focus on Polish architects working in the world today, their views of where architecture is heading and how Polish identity influences this process; and finally on the third day we will focus on the next generation of younger Polish architects who will be working in a future suffused with new technologies, climate change, and all the other impulsive changes we are unable to currently predict.
An exhibition in The Barbican’s Conservatory and the Garden Room will coincide with the Congress. It will feature some of the leading Polish Architects working in the UK and elsewhere outside of Poland today.
