Alina Scholtz is a pioneer of Polish landscape architecture and one of Warsaw’s most important greenery designers. The Saski Garden, which was reconstructed after the war, the monumental landscaping of the Służewiec Race Track and the W-Z Route, or the intimate spaces of the Sady Żoliborskie and Szwoleżerów housing estates, full of greenery and recreational solutions, are only some of her capital city projects. Scholtz understood landscape architecture broadly: as the design of space using plants, water and landscaping, with a unique sensitivity to the cyclical nature of life. Alina Scholtz’s rich oeuvre, hitherto underestimated, is presented in this publication for the first time in such broad terms. Her projects inspire and, in an era of climate change, suggest solutions to help build a naturally sustainable urban microclimate. Because a city is not just about architecture!
“The book is a collective work by two art historians and three designers. Scholtz’s oeuvre is thus interpreted from different perspectives concerning contemporary problems of urban greenery and ways of shaping it. As a result, the book is an important contribution to open, interdisciplinary research into Polish architectural history, landscape architecture and design practice and the relationship between them. (…) the material collected in the life calendar, project catalogue, bibliography, extended by valuable iconographic sources shows for the first time in a multifaceted way the work of Alina Scholtzówna and the current state of knowledge concerning the reception of her achievements today.”
Architectural Award of the Mayor of Warsaw 2022 in the category of architectural events: Exhibition “More Greenery! Projects by Alina Scholtz”, Klara Czerniewska-Andryszczyk, Ewa Perlińska-Kobierzyńska, Natalia Budnik, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Simone De Iacobis
