Stanisław Lem i architektura futurologiczna – casus Jana Głuszaka
Stanisław Lem and futurological architecture – the case of Jan Głuszak

Summary/Abstract: The 1960s and 1970s constitute the period of a rapid development of a visionary “architecture of the future” both in Poland and in the whole world. It would appear that the creative work and thoughts of the most prominent Polish futurologist, Stanislaw Lem, would strike a significant chord with the architectural concepts that were created in Poland in accordance with this trend. However, this is not what happened. Most likely becasue his predictions were too far away from, as Leszek Kolakowski puts it in his review of Summa Technologiae, “true technological dreams of our world” that focused on telephones, “which you can use to easily call from Warsaw to Pruszkow”, lifts that do not break quickly, etc. Some of Lem’s ideas (among others the idea of “fantomatics”) were accepted and became part of the author’s utopian vision of the future of the world and architecture in Jan Gluszak’s “Dagarama”, probably the most original among the Polish architects-futurologists.

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