Kuba Snopek tells the story of Nowa Huta, a district located in the eastern part of southern Polish city, Krakow. Soviet architects used prefabrication and centralised ways of designing to build the urban center quickly. Its quick urbanization led to the change in how churches and community spaces were built. During communism, churches were form of protest, making the construction of them taboo. That all shifted in the 60s, along with a reform of Catholicism and its emphasis on community. This is just one story of many about the construction of churches from Poland during the communist era and an example of community space that can be seen in the physical landscape and architecture of Poland.

Kuba Snopek is a Polish urbanist and researcher. He is an expert on post-communist cities: planning, mass-housing, the preservation of intangible heritage. Snopek has worked on architectural and urban planning projects and research, and he has produced exhibitions in Poland, Russia, and at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. He taught and curated educational programs (including the experimental digital program Vector) at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia, and taught at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. His book “Belyayevo Forever,” on the preservation of intangible heritage, was published in English, Polish and Russian. Nowadays he is working on a project called “Architecture of the VII Day” – a massive research of Polish sacral architecture during times of communism.

Kuba presented Urban Combine: Shared Desires, Break Boundaries at reSITE 2016 | Cities in Migration
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