On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of Warsaw's reconstruction organized by the Capital City of Warsaw, DSH invites you to Saturday-Sunday city walks with Jerzy S. Majewski and Tomasz Markiewicz along the trail of the most interesting, lesser-known locations in the capital related to the city's reconstruction as part of the series "BUILDING A NEW HOME – UNKNOWN STORIES". As the guide Jerzy Majewski emphasizes: The Warsaw Housing Cooperative WSM Mokotów estate was built just after World War II, at the same time as the estate in Mariensztat. The first residents moved in before Christmas 1948. During the construction, the first records in work competition were set, and many famous people, artists, actors, and writers lived in the blocks in Mokotów. The project was created in the WSM studio, and its main authors were Zasław Malicki, Michał Soroka, and Tadeusz Tworkowski. The estate stretches between Wołoska, Wiktorska, Różyckiego, and Kraushar streets. When it was designed, the doctrine of socialist realism was not yet in force, so the architecture of the houses is modernist and quite diverse. Several gallery blocks were built here, as well as residential buildings with glassed-in studios intended for artists and architects. The estate's space is not as fluid as in the similar WSM Koło estate. Some houses stand in rows, others, freestanding, are grouped around internal courtyards. Several blocks stretch along Jarosław Dąbrowski Street - which is the main street of the estate. Shops were also located on the ground floors here. Residential blocks in WSM Mokotów are three, at most four stories high, no taller than the surrounding, already old trees. The estate apartments were small and originally modestly equipped, with coal kitchens. The architecture of the buildings is modest but not devoid of interesting details. For example, the entrance areas to staircases were carefully designed, framing them with a kind of portal. The estate was divided into four colonies - initially called quarters. The construction of 32 residential blocks and low infrastructure facilities such as kindergartens, a now non-existent boiler room, and a shopping pavilion, one of the first such estate pavilions built in Warsaw, was planned. Today, the estate appears quite neglected, although it is surrounded by very well-maintained greenery. The walk will start at the corner of Jarosław Dąbrowski Street and Aleja Niepodległości, near the Racławicka metro station. 📅 Program of UNKNOWN STORIES walks: - 13.07 (Sunday), 1:00 PM MARIENSZTAT WITH BRIDGES, guide: Tomasz Markiewicz - 20.07 (Sunday), 1:00 PM MOKOTOWSKA STREET, guide: Tomasz Markiewicz - 9.08 (Saturday), 1:00 PM OLD TOWN WITH WALLS, guide: Jerzy S. Majewski - 17.08 (Sunday), 1:00 PM PRAGA 1945, guide: Jerzy S. Majewski - 14.09 (Sunday), 1:00 PM CHMIELNA AND SURROUNDINGS, guide: Tomasz Markiewicz - 21.09 (Sunday), 1:00 PM WSM MOKOTÓW, guide: Jerzy S. Majewski Free admission! See you on the trail! BUILDING A NEW HOME In connection with the 2025 celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the capital's reconstruction, the DSH team has prepared a program referring to those experiences and also taking into account source testimonies and substantive findings regarding the reconstruction of Warsaw, which have entered the public space in the last several years. The project also aims to introduce unknown audiovisual materials (including testimonies from the DSH Oral History Archive) into circulation. The substantive coordinator of the DSH "Building a New Home" program is Piotr Jakubowski, deputy director of DSH. The program includes, among others, the outdoor exhibition "BUILDING A NEW HOME" (September–December 2025), the temporary exhibition "WARSAW ANEW. REPORTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS 1945-1949" (September 2025–February 2026), premieres of new editions of the albums "Building a New Home. Reconstruction of Warsaw 1945–1952" and "Warsaw Anew. Reportage Photographs 1945-1949," city walks with Jerzy S. Majewski and Tomasz Markiewicz along the trail of the most interesting, lesser-known locations in the capital related to the city's reconstruction as part of the series "Building a New Home – Unknown Stories," as well as the series "Thursdays with the Reconstruction of Warsaw," carried out from March to December 2025. The DSH "BUILDING A NEW HOME" project is part of the cultural program initiated and funded by the Capital City of Warsaw on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the capital's reconstruction. Detailed information: https://dsh.waw.pl https://kultura.um.warszawa.pl #buildinganewhome #80thanniversaryofcapitalreconstruction
