TOM 1 ZAŁĄCZNIK NR 4 Kraków 10.09.2018 r.

arch. Jacek Czechowicz, PhD, Eng.

Institute of History of Architecture

And Monument Preservation

Faculty of Architecture

Of Cracow University of Technology

ul. Kanonicza 1, 31-002 Kraków

SELF-REFERAT

1. CURRICULUM VITAE … p. 2

2. INDICATED ACHIEVEMENT … s. 3

3. DESCRIBING OF OTHER RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS … p. 5

4. TEACHING, ORGANIZATIONAL AND DESIGN ACTIVITY … p. 9

5. AWARDS AND HONOURS … p. 11

6. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS … p. 11

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1. CURRICULUM VITAE

1.1. Diplomas and academic degrees - with the name, place and year of

obtaining them and the title of the doctoral dissertation

● Studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology

in the years 1980-1985.

● Master's degree no. 2468 / A obtained on November 25, 1985; subject:

Conservation project for the adaptation of the former brewery in Piekary to needs

of a tourist hostel; promoter: Prof. Wiktor Zin, PhD. Eng. Arch. reviewer: Assoc.

Prof. Elżbieta Dąmbska-Śmiałowska, PhD. Eng. Arch.

● Ph.D. in technical sciences No. 1145 issued with resolution of the Board of the

faculty of architecture on March 20, 1996 on the basis of a doctoral thesis entitled:

One-storey tenement houses of Cracow suburbs from the end of the 18th century to

the middle of the 20th century; promoter: Maciej Pawlicki, PhD. Eng. Arch.,

reviewers: Prof. Wiktor Zin, PhD. Eng. Arch., Prof. Zbigniew Gądek, PhD. Eng.

Arch.

1.2. Information on previous employment in scientific / artistic units

● 1986-1996 employment as a teaching and didactic assistant at the Unit of the

History of Polish Architecture and Monument Preservation, of Institute of History

of Architecture and Monument Preservation (A-1), head of the Unit Prof. Wiktor

Zin, PhD. Eng. Arch.

● 1996-2005 employment as a research and didactic assistant professor at the Unit

of Studies and Conservation Research, Institute of the History of Architecture and

Monument Preservation (A-1), head of the Unit prof. Maciej Bonawentura

Pawlicki, PhD. Eng. Arch.

● 2005-2011 employment as a research and didactic assistant professor in the Unit

of the History of Architecture of the 19th and 20th century and the Reconstruction

of Objects, of the Institute of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation

(A-1), the head of the Department prof. Zbigniew Białkiewicz, PhD. Eng. Arch.

● 2011-2015 employment as a research and didactic assistant professor in the

Department of History of Polish Architecture and Monument Preservation, of the

Institute of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation (A-1), the head

of the Chair prof. Ewa Węcławowicz-Gyurkovich, PhD. Eng. Arch.

● since 2015 employment as a research and didactic assistant professor in the

Department of History of Polish Architecture, of the Institute of History of

Architecture and Monument Preservation (A-1), the head of the Chair Klaudia

Stala, D.Sc. PhD.

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● In the years 1987-90 employed as a designer assistant in the in the Regional

Team of Design Services in Proszowice.

● From 1991 to 2018 own professional practice and project cooperation with

arch.: A. Masłowski, A. Czechowicz-Kaniewska, W. Żeromski, M. Czechowicz,

Z. Białkiewicz.

2. INDICATED ACHIEVEMENT

2.1. As an achievement resulting from art. 16 sec. 2 of the Act of 14 March 2003

on academic degrees and academic title, and on degrees and title in the field of art

(Dz. U. nr 196, pos. 1165) I submit my own monographic book publication:

Extension of the temple. Aa new sacral space on the base of old arrangement of

selected churches in Małopolska, Cracow University of Technology Publisher,

Cracow 2018; 24 publishing sheet, 319 pages, 33 black and white illustrations and

164 colorful, ISBN 978-83-7242-708-3, in Polish with a summary in English.

Scientific editor: Andrzej Gaczoł, reviewers: Maciej Bonawentura Pawlicki, Józef

Wołczański, Artur Zaguła.

2.2. Report the scientific goal of the work and the results achieved along with

an indication of their possible use.

The scientific work is a summary of the results of research on sacred

architecture. The chapter on structural transformations with overlapping layers,

among which each phase of construction has clearly maintained its autonomy,

was separated from this broad thematic scope. This issue was illustrated on the

example of six selected temples associated with the region of the former province

of Małopolska (Polonia Minor), whose process of building consisted of at least

two phases. Two basic selection criteria have been adopted: a common feature of

a multi-stage implementation should be a clear scope of a particular phase, the

other a coherent element - linking one of the phases with the period of historicism

- the turn of the 19th and 20th century, when new ways and expressions were sought

for innovative ways of expressing old forms.

The basic research goal in the field of the subject is to formulate the analysis of

the phenomenon of modification of the architectural character of the temple,

identified with a non-substantial and complex process, taking place in the subtle

zone of the sacrum - the space preserved not only by the required canons, but also

centuries-old habits. In a sacral building, any change, displacement of almost one

element, can give birth to new values, consequently not necessarily understood

and accepted. Every action of an architect, therefore, requires a proper balance,

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but also a creative courage to introduce another form, replacing or complementing

the existing one, in the name of further functioning of not fully the same, because

the church has been rebuilt. Enlarged temples changed their character, the former

substance in a different scope became part of the next, multi-layered composition,

not without prejudice to the traditions and values associated with the former space.

Another goal is to check the accepted research method, which was to enable

the creation of a transparent reconstruction of individual phases of the temple's

extension - in terms of drawing and 3D modeling.

The starting point for the development of the stages of development of

individual churches was the performance of architectural research: inventory

measurements, photographs and full recognition of the spatial structure of objects.

They made it possible to obtain a basis for drawing, allowing preliminary

information about the construction phases, gradually refined by analyzing existing

studies and available historical and iconographic materials, especially the most

valuable ones - located in the monastic and parish archives.

The basic aim was to obtain the most faithful stratigraphy of each object,

formulated almost on an ongoing basis, with the simultaneous development of the

spatial structure. During the measurements, simultaneous observation of the

architectural substance was carried out, confronting its character with previously

available knowledge and making appropriate adjustments and additions if

necessary. As a result of this preliminary stage of the research, projections of each

temple were prepared, with an appropriate degree of detailing to the basic

conservation scale 1:50, with an actual accuracy of 1 cm. Structured information

was applied to such prepared plans, based on archival materials, results of

previous research and own observations.

Then, the construction of reconstruction of particular phases of a given temple

was started using the 3D imaging method. The virtual models created as the main

result of the research facilitated a more precise analysis of architectural solutions

shaped in particular phases and correlated mutual relations between them,

allowing a more complete reconstruction of transformed or removed structures

during further construction activities. The solid models have also made it possible

to better recognize the interdependencies between successive phase layering,

difficult to present on the basis of only projections, cross-sections or elevations.

The final results of the research were included in the summary chapters, where

each temple was formulated in the form of conservation proposals, the scope of

necessary actions towards the extraction and display of historical systems.

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The main intention of such research works is the need to broaden historical

knowledge in the area of development of the architectural form of a sacral

building with the parallel possibility of popularizing history. During the research

it could be observed that in multiphase temples, apart from the basic descriptive

historical information, at least a small exposition devoted to the stages of

development is missing, in a transparent way giving an idea of the nature of the

subsequent phases of building formation. 3D models of individual building phases

as a result of research, possible for 3D printing, can be the main basis for such a

museum gallery. In the era of evolving VR techniques, they can also be converted

to a virtual form for creating a multimedia or interactive display or a three-

dimensional holographic object.

The most important direction of research has become the formulation of

indications for future conservation activities, due to the specificity of a given

sacred object in each case separate, but desirable in order to more clearly visualize

the various stages of development. Probably in some fragments of the multi-phase

structure of temples there is still a potential possibility of discovering and

displaying the relics that have survived until now, therefore the use of more and

more developed, non-invasive research methods seems to be the most desirable.

3. DESCRIBING OF OTHER RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS

3.1. Research topics before getting a university degree title of the Doctor

In 1990, the Institute of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation

conducted studies of the architectural and urban structure of the outskirts of

historical cities under the theme A-1/220/90: Strategy for conservation activities

on the outskirts of historical cities, including the Cracow issues. Participating in

these works, in a research team under the direction of Wiktor Zin, I also conducted

observations and research on the forms of architecture of the suburbs of Krakow,

which were shaped on the basis of downtown design patterns adapted to small

dimensions and a different structure of houses near the village. On the outskirts

of the city, an interesting type of building developed - of a miniature, one-story

building, which with its dimensions, layout of architectural openings and the

layout of the projection resembled a rustic wooden hut, but the material and

character of the detail referred to monumental, reduced forms of urban

construction.

The specificity and a wide range of compositional solutions, as well as the

progressive degradation of these objects, led me to a broader elaboration of this

important chapter of the city architecture, which became the basis of the article:

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House property of Krakow periphery from the 19th and 20th centuries, published

in the materials of the 3rd Symposium on Urban Monuments Conservation and

Architecture in 1990, and then the subject of a doctoral dissertation: One-storey

tenement houses of Cracow suburbs from the end of the 18th century to the middle

of the 20th century, completed in 1996, containing typology, link analysis and

characterization of modular formation of suburban houses. A large part of the

objects subjected to research has not survived to this day, or has undergone

transformations so radical that the original form has been irretrievably lost. The

research materials prepared at that time are therefore a unique documentation of

Cracow's former, unique architecture.

A parallel research topic, coinciding with my interests, was associated with

sacred architecture. In the article: Roman relics of the twelfth and thirteenth

centuries in the former monastic church in Miechów, published in the Technical

Transactions in 1992, the oldest preserved relics of the former monastic church of

the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Miechów were characterized. These remains,

in the form of the middle section of the western wall with a pedestal, a fourfold

slip and lizen and parts of the northern wall of the presbytery with a Roman

window allow to presume that the original temple was a three-aisled Romanesque

basilica in the Benedictine type, with a towering western massif and east aisle

closures in the form of an apse. This would be confirmed by the layout of the

Baroque church, which includes the relics, organization of the projection and

proportions of the interior, clearly showing the Romanesian spatial dependencies,

which were first imposed by the Gothic and then baroque structure of the

reconstructed and extended temple. Carefully developed limestone blows,

window treatment, profiled quadrant and plinth, and friezes from the frieze, re-

embedded under the cornice of a free-standing tower - belfries suggest that the

Romanesque church of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre was characterized by an

advanced level of performance technique.

In this way, two trends of scientific research were defined: the first concerning

sacral architecture, with reference to monumental objects and the second one,

encompassing the architecture of the suburbs of Cracow, partly related to urban

issues. This range of interests made it possible in the following years to conduct

individual research on sacral objects and complexes as well as historic objects

shaping the historic urban structure of Cracow. The experience gained also

allowed to participate in team studies with partially similar problems.

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3.2. Research topics after getting a university degree title of the Doctor

● In the years 2001 – 2003 in the Department of Conservation Studies and

Research, research grant no. 5 T07 F 001 23 was carried out, concerning works

on the creation of Krakow monuments database, as a basis for the functioning of

the electronic data resource, dedicated to both the general public and specialists.

The main purpose of such a solution was the need to improve conservation

decision making by accessing an online database containing information about

Krakow's monuments and allowing the maintenance of the conservator's work

thanks to the easy possibility of analyzes, compilations and comparisons.

Working in a scientific team under the guidance of prof. Maciej Pawlicki, PhD.

Eng. Arch. I dealt with the defined scope of the problem, formulating and

clarifying the principles of the operation of precise algorithms and preparing

updates and publications of individual fragments of the research stages.

An extremely interesting issue being an element of the above works was the

process of creating a non-invasive spatial inventory of a physical model using

photogrammetric technique, on the example of the figure of Saint. Francis from

the salt mine in Wieliczka.

Such activities may enable the collection of complete data about the structure

of the object, then directed to the resources of the appropriate database, available

from anywhere. A potential replica of architectural detail can therefore be made

in any place, for example where there are adequate technological and material

capabilities. There was no advanced laser scanning and spatial printing

technology at that time, so these works were the initial process of imaging space

and then modeling it by using the BIS Machine device.

● In the years 2010 – 2012 I participated in scientific research under Grant No.

2808 / B / T02 / 2009/37, Functional, spatial and engineering solutions of selected

medieval monasteries in the context of the specific rules of the assembly. Research

and conservation issues (head of the grant: Arch. Anna Bojęś-Białasik, PhD,

Eng.). My main task was to cooperate in research on seven monasteries:

Benedictines in Tyniec, Augustinians in Cracow, Norbertine in Zwierzyniec,

Cistercians in Mogila, Szczyrzyc, Koprzywnica and Jędrzejów, involving

participation in the reconstruction of the construction phases of monasteries. I was

a co-author of the formulated hypotheses and verification of the results of earlier

research and the author of graphic reconstructions of the construction phases of

monasteries included in the final report of the research project.

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● I participated in scientific, national and international conferences, in many

seminars, symposia and congresses, in which I presented the results of my own

research in conference papers and presentations. I was the secretary of the

International Scientific Conference "A computer database for the needs of cultural

heritage protection", organized by the Department of Studies and Conservation

Research. I was a co-organizer of the International Conservation Conference

Krakow 2000: "Cultural heritage as the foundation of the development of

civilization".

Particularly important for me is the long-standing participation in the

international conference "Defining the architectural space", organized by the

Institute of Architectural Design. It created an opportunity to relate research

observations to strictly formulated conference theses. It also allowed to

supplement and expand the scope of my previous research. A slightly different

dimension was the GIS Polonia conference, in which participation required a

synthetic look at the conservation process: in terms of systematics, the

relationship between data resources and the search for optimal methods of access

to important information about the monument.

● An important chapter of my scientific works was also related to the study of

broadly understood relations between architectural forms and references to

contemporary conditions. During this research, and especially during the work

carried out in medieval monasteries connected with the scientific grant, I have

noticed the need to make an analytical account of the process of expansion of the

sacred object. It is an independent and closed form, therefore any transformation

can theoretically lead to the destruction of the original, grounded tradition of the

system. Initial work, initiated by the aforementioned earlier studies in the former

monastery complex in Miechów, was summarized in the article: Expansion of

historic churches - contrast and coherence. Part 1. I have described in it the stages

of the expansion of the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Szczepanów, paying

attention to the extremely balanced approach to the historical substance of the

author of the last neo-Gothic extension, Jan Sas-Zubrzycki, which can be an

important clue for contemporary architects, often operating within existing

buildings.

● I am a co-editor of two monographs: Past for the future: collective work,

published by the Cracow University of Technology.

● Currently, from 2017, I participate in two scientific grants, in which I work on

computer reconstructions of architectural objects and complexes.

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In the first I deal with the reconstruction of the Dominican monastery in

Cracow in selected periods - part I and II, for the needs of the Research Project of

Marcin Szyma, PhD, carried out at the Historical Department of the Institute of

Art History at the Jagiellonian University.

Under the second grant, I am doing reconstructions of the Pueblo Indian

settlements in the Colorado basin: Kiva in the Sky, Mad Dog Tower, Sunny

Alcove, The Gallery, Two Story House. The research topic is part of the Polish

archaeological project: Sand Canyon-Castle Rock, carried out by the Institute of

Archeology of the Jagiellonian University. Since 2014, the project has been

financed by the National Science Center (Sonata grant). Research director:

Radosław Palonka, PhD.

3.3. Planned directions for further research.

In the near future, I foresee further analysis of the process of extension of sacral

buildings, the basis of which was the publication indicated in the research

achievement. I am planning to create a catalogue of stylistic transformations

containing a typology of transformations in selected historical regions.

I am also planning research works at the sacred foundations of Jan Długosz. I

intend to publish their results in a separate monograph.

Moreover, I intend to return to the preliminary studies on the architecture of the

suburbs of Krakow, because my research materials are a valuable source of

information about this specific city space, in which most of the objects I

inventoried do not exist, and a significant part has been subjected to destructive

transformations destroying their original stylistic character.

4. TEACHING, ORGANIZATIONAL AND DESIGN ACTIVITY

● I run classes with students in the following subjects: History of Architecture,

Design for Conservation, Architectural Survey Internship and Diploma Design.

In previous years, before changes in the schedule of subjects, I also conducted

classes in the History of Wooden Architecture, History of Polish Architecture,

Photography, Building Measurements and Design for Conservation.

I am giving also lectures in the subject: History of Architecture and a lecture in

English for students of the Erasmus program on conservation issues related to

medieval castles in Poland. Introducing students to the typology of architectural

forms of past eras, I point out that ancient architectural forms are not a closed

chapter, because they can still inspire architects – on the basis of conscious use of

developed compositional relations, to enrich contemporary creative searches.

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In the years 2016-2018, I was the auxiliary supervisor of three diploma works

on conservation issues.

In 2017, at the invitation of the management of the Public Salesian High School

in Cracow, I prepared and delivered a lecture entitled "Architecture – design,

research and didactics", as part of the Art History classes for students of second-

grade high school.

● In the years 2016 - 2018 I was a member of diploma commissions (master's

diplomas).

In the years 1995 - 2016 I worked as a member of the secretariat of the Faculty

Recruitment Commission of the Faculty of Architecture at the Cracow University

of Technology.

I have dealt with the protocols of the public discussion on the doctoral

dissertation and one protocol of the habilitation colloquium.

● My project activity began as a designer assistant in the Regional Team of Design

Services in Proszowice in the years 1987 - 1990. I took part in design and

construction practice, gaining experience in conceptual work and as a member of

the project team.

On September 24, 1991, by the decision of the Province Governor's Office in

Krakow, I obtained the possibility of performing independent technical functions

in construction (building qualifications No. RP-Upr / 469/91).

I am the author and co-author of over thirty completed architectural projects.

At the same time, while cooperating with architects, I participated in the process

of designing and developing documentation for other architectural objects.

A large part of the design work is the extension, reconstruction and

modernization of existing facilities, activities showing in some part coherence

with scientific interests. In parallel with individual facilities, I also dealt with the

design of public facilities, among others: the nursery in Modlniczka, the trade

pavilion of the food and industry in Tomaszów Lubelski and adjustments to

functional changes of the facilities of the Care and Treatment Center in Cracow

at Wielicka 267 street. The conceptual experiment was a completed single-family

house project in Bębło, in which I tried to break the trend of building houses on

the canvas of a rectangular block covered with a gable roof with roof windows or

dormer windows. In this place I proposed a central form covered with a hipped