Thorough research into town houses was initiated
during the first half of the twentieth century, the
period of the first modern studies dealing with the
urban development of old towns (the most extensive
investigations were conducted in Lvov, Warsaw and
Cracow). The investigations encompassed an analysis
of particular town houses as well as their complexes
perceived from the viewpoint of the history
of architecture.
Scientific investigations conducted at the time
inspired the conservation of old town houses, which
entailed reconstruction of wartime devastation, the
recreation and rebuilding of transformed parts of
buildings, and the conservation of historical townhouse
complexes as well as a reform of the development
of the lots. A number of town houses in Lvov,
Cracow, Warsaw, Toruń, Vilno and several smaller
centres was subjected to conservation. Greatest
importance was attached to the façade and rendering
its spatial configuration more legible, without, as a
rule, due attention paid to the development of building
lots. Conservation entailed the repair and conservation
of elevations and, sometimes, of particular
details (masonry or ceilings). Upon certain occasions,
the conservation of interiors led to the removal of
secondary divisions and rendering the historical outfitting
of the interiors more legible.
Upon other occasions, old town houses were
arranged in a contemporary mode. Such reconstruction
was carried out in a historical spirit (arbitrary
compositions of neo-Renaissance, neo-Baroque,
Neoclassical and modern elements). The town houses
were also granted a contemporary modernist outfitting
which referred to stylised historical forms. The
work conducted at the time frequently exceeded the
binding theory of the history and conservation of
architecture, and the applied solutions were repeated
after the second world war when they probably influenced
the conception of reconstructing the townhouse
development of historical cities.
The article analyses research focused on old town
houses, conducted in Poland up to 1939, and the
trends of reconstruction after World War I. The
author went on to consider the conservation of historical
buildings, focusing on their range and applied
methods, and presented the most important conservation
undertakings of the period. The last discussed
issue is the problem of modern architecture adjoining
historical town houses, widely considered at
the time.
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