According to the press at the time, architects in Gdynia “built ships on land out of bricks and cement”.
Market Hall (arch. Stefan Reychman) reminds of a church. The cubist villa Łosiuwka (arch. Zbigniew Kupiec). The Swedish Consulate and the evangelical church (arch. Stanisław Płoski). Israel Reich and Wolf Birnbaum House (arch. Edward Fuhrschmied) – with orangeries in the corner windows. The joke is that in Gdynia, the staircase must be not steep and wide to carry a piano in and a coffin out.
Gdynia city was started to be built in 1925, with modernist architecture. We will get to know the Kamienna Góra district and its luxurious villas. You will visit Marianna Doliwa-Dobrowolska, whose husband was the nephew of the famous Polish politician E. Kwiatkowski, known as the “creator of Gdynia”. You will learn where Kwiatkowski’s monument was built and how Pope John Paul II honoured him. We will walk through the spaces of the ship-like house.
According to tour guide Robert Chrzanowski, Gdynia is known as The White City of Modernism.