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Dagarama: Back to the Future

An exhibition glimpses into the fantasy world of Jan Gluszak, unfulfilled visionary architect.

The exhibition Dagarama: Back to the Future is a kind of time-warp into the world of fantasy and ideas of Jan Gluszak, an unfulfilled architect-visionary known mostly to the older generation, and at that more as a colorful character among the local bohemian class. But in the 1970s, the Polish architecture environment and the magazines discovered his futuristic designs of cities, buildings, and installation art. He is the designer, inter alia, of the dome covering the Old Town in Tarnów.

Gluszak was born on 12 March 1937 in Tarnów, and began studies in architecture, which he did not graduate from due to illness. But he continued to draw unusual architectural structures, and in 1975 he won the prestigious award for architects in Terra I, a famous architectural festival in Poland in the 1970s.

The most important inspiration for Jan Gluszak was nature. He sought universal patterns and solutions, admiring its design and functional logic, harmony and beauty. In his manifesto he wrote: 'unsurpassed architecture, natural systems have the animal and vegetable, as well as systems which are shaped in various types of inanimate matter.
From <i>Dagarama: Back to the Future</i>, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From Dagarama: Back to the Future, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
At the exhibition one can also see projects of residential units ranging from 500 to 8000 meters high, intended for tens of thousands, even a million inhabitants, megastructural projects for specific climate zones, and cities located in disaster-prone areas.
Marcin Szczelina

From <i>Dagarama: Back to the Future</i>, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From Dagarama: Back to the Future, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
The most important inspiration for Jan Gluszak was nature. He sought universal patterns and solutions, admiring its design and functional logic, harmony and beauty.
From <i>Dagarama: Back to the Future</i>, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From Dagarama: Back to the Future, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From <i>Dagarama: Back to the Future</i>, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From Dagarama: Back to the Future, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From <i>Dagarama: Back to the Future</i>, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From Dagarama: Back to the Future, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From <i>Dagarama: Back to the Future</i>, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From Dagarama: Back to the Future, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From <i>Dagarama: Back to the Future</i>, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.
From Dagarama: Back to the Future, courtesy of the Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw.

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