Retroversions. Szczecin's New, Very Old Podzamcze
TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art•Oct 30, 2025 — Feb 08, 2026
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Podzamcze (Castle Boroughs) is both the oldest and the youngest district of Szczecin. It was here, in the early Middle Ages, that the city was born. And yet, the modern history of the city of Szczecin began only after World War II, along with visions and plans for its reconstruction. The actual rebuilding of Podzamcze area was initiated fairly late – in the 1980s, when the Craftsmen’s Association and the Merchants’ Association began efforts to develop the district for service and retail establishments. New tenement houses were erected, literally, on the ruins of historic buildings, within the city’s original layout. Without actually copying historical forms, the high ceramic roofs and plaster-covered façades that we see today evoke the area’s former heyday: the 17th- and 18th-century splendor.
Retroversion is a proprietary conservation method developed in the 1980s by Professor Maria Lubocka-Hoffmann. The idea behind it is to restore…
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Retroversions. Szczecin's New, Very Old Podzamcze
TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art•Oct 30, 2025 — Feb 08, 2026
Press Release
Podzamcze (Castle Boroughs) is both the oldest and the youngest district of Szczecin. It was here, in the early Middle Ages, that the city was born. And yet, the modern history of the city of Szczecin began only after World War II, along with visions and plans for its reconstruction. The actual rebuilding of Podzamcze area was initiated fairly late – in the 1980s, when the Craftsmen’s Association and the Merchants’ Association began efforts to develop the district for service and retail establishments. New tenement houses were erected, literally, on the ruins of historic buildings, within the city’s original layout. Without actually copying historical forms, the high ceramic roofs and plaster-covered façades that we see today evoke the area’s former heyday: the 17th- and 18th-century splendor.
Retroversion is a proprietary conservation method developed in the 1980s by Professor Maria Lubocka-Hoffmann. The idea behind it is to restore…
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