Dokumentacja prac konserwatorskich Józefa Piusa Dziekońskiego (1844-1927) w zakresie architektury sakralnej : w 150-lecie urodzin architekta

This review of the works of one of the most outstanding Polish architects concerns undertakings which the contemporary comprehension of the term does not always classify as conservation. The concept itself conceals different varieties of intervention into historical substance whose intention was not so much conservation as the restoration or complete transformation of the object. The letter usually was the outcome of the need for extensive expansion which frequently caused irreversible destruction of the original building. The least harmful and traditionally sanctioned was the addition of assorted annexes or chapels to the solid of the existing church. Each of those modes occurs in the projects by Dziekoński which offer a general acquaintanceship with the workshop and methodological approach to sacral architecture at turn of the nineteenth century.