ZUBRZYCKI Jan Sas - POLSKIE BUDOWNICTWO DREWNIANE as a prototype for Nadwiślański Style and Zygmunt Style in the shape work. Research based on numerous antique drawings .
Author's own imprint, Cracow 1916. 235 drawings in the text. Dimensions 34.5x24.3cm; pages 158. Booklet(underpainting, soiling). Few soiling inside.
Zubrzycki'sPolish wooden architecture is a sort of prelude to the Vistula Style and the Sigismund Style. Zubrzycki notes the incompleteness or complete lack of research on this subject. He considers as the reason for this the prevailing view of the time that a given field should not be dealt with by a person professionally connected with it, so Zubrzycki an architect should not write about architecture at all. The history of art cannot develop using only rational methods of description. Scholars, on the other hand, who have no real experience in this field, write works that are weak in content. Hence there is a lack of good studies on the history of architecture, which, especially in the case of wooden buildings, is fading from sight turning to ruin. The author sees rescue in the people, who, defending the signs of their Polishness from the partitioners, maintained the traditions of the native style of construction. Nevertheless, with time running out, the need for research and archiving of monuments is pressing. As in any of his works, Zubrzycki chalks up dozens of plans, images and architectural details, enriching the description with beautiful illustrations.
