Pogranicza architektury

There has been a number of definitions of architecture developed and applied through history. Depending on the definition one can also define the limits and „borderlands" of architecture. Depending on their characteristics there are numerous pieces of architecture to be placed within the limits of architecture or outside. Some of them can be disputed whether they belong to architecture or not, such as unbuilt things; imagined things; ugly, poorly built or impractical buildings. A specific example of a „margin of architecture" are paintings showing fantastic townscapes; they consist of real buildings, existing in given towns, mixed in the paintings. It has been illustrated by discussing two 20th-century paintings by outstanding Polish artists.