The Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar of WUST hosted Professor Andrzej Kadłuczka, a prominent architect specialising in restoration projects and conversion of historic structures. On May 23, Professor Kadłuczka delivered a lecture entitled “New ontological understanding of cultural heritage and the problems inherent in its protection”

The scientist is a co-author or author of restoration works including the modernisation and restoration of Cracow’s Słowacki Theatre, the Underground Museum at the Main Square in Cracow, restoration of Stary Theatre and Sukiennice, reconstruction of Grunwaldzki Monument in Cracow and the city’s Armenian tenements, as well as the conversion of Gniew castle, and many other ones.

As an academic and researcher, he is employed at the Cracow University of Technology (he used to be the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and many years’ head of the Institute of the History of Architecture and Conservation of Historic Structures). His academic placements include a scholarship of the Egyptian government at the Department of Antiquities in Cairo and work as a lecturer at foreign universities in Munster, Venice, Delft, Budapest, and Zagreb. Professor Kadłuczka has authored over 200 publications - scientific papers, textbooks, and books. He is the originator and organiser of the International Conservation Conference, who adopted the Europe-wide known Cracow Charter 2000. 

Active in many scientific organisations in Poland and abroad, he is the president of the Historical Monuments & Art Conservators Association and a member of numerous councils and expert groups. He has received a large number of awards, including the prestigious Premio Europeo 2017, granted by the Medici Academy in Florence. 

At Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Professor Andrzej Kadłuczka delivered a lecture on various concepts of the understanding of cultural heritage. The issues was addressed in the lecture include the new paradigm of a historic structure and the musealisation of public space.