Modernistyczne ogrody Gerarda Ciołka w Wilanowie na tle historii miejsca

Gerard Ciolek is primarily known as an outstanding researcher and conservator of historic gardens. The purpose of this research is to analyse a less recognised part of his work — the gardens designed using the style influences of his contemporaries: pre-war Modernism and Socialist Modernism. This issue is presented based on the example of his works for the Orangery Garden and the garden in front of the Fig Tree Conservatory in Wilanów. The archival research carried out made it possible to recognise the phases of development of the area examined, with particular emphasis on the years 1944–1962 when Gerard Ciołek’s designs were created, as well as the implementation works that were carried out on their basis. Analysing Ciołek’s ideas for the Orangery Garden and the garden in front of the Fig Tree Conservatory, it was found that they are distinguished by many features attributed by researchers to modernist gardens, and while the Orangery Garden rather represents the aesthetics of pre-war Modernism, the slightly later garden in front of the Fig Tree Conservatory follows the trend of Socialist Modernism. The results of the field survey showed that elements of the garden composition derived from G. Ciołek’s designs have survived to the present day. They are much clearer in the Orangery Garden than in the garden in front of the Fig Tree Conservatory. Both of these gardens require restoration works, which should take into account relics of all historical periods, including the solutions introduced here by Gerard Ciołek.