Posted on 1/15/2016
Architect Grzegorz Mika sings the praises of Marek Budzyński and Zbigniew Badowski’s Warsaw University Library, a postmodern paean to free and open access that was supposed to herald a new, post 1989, Polish architectural identity…
The act of “BUWing” is well known term among Warsaw’s young adult population, and it is not just a random invention. Rather, this neologism, the root of which is the abbreviation for the Warsaw University Library (Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego), aptly captures a phenomenon that encompasses a mode of spending time, studying and leisure – a myriad of activities all...