Ruth,

I thank you for this link. It is curious.

I am to be in Poland in September at a Garden City outside of Warsaw, at 
Milanowek. I am somehow to figure out how to give a workshop to youth in 
regard to their environment, stone as a natural element, then end in the 
workshop of the stone sculptor Jan Szczepkowski 
<http://www.sztuka.net.pl/palio/html.run?_Instance=www.sztuka.net.pl&_PageID=445&newsId=2862&_CheckSum=-48763271>. 
I plan to spend a day to wander around the town... so far all I have 
been able to do is familiarize myself with Google Earth maps.  I will 
spend some time to look at both the sculpture and the original building 
that houses it. Beyond the fact that this activity is a small piece of a 
larger celebration of the Garden City I am intrigued that I speak zero 
Polish and will be reliant on the youth who attend the workshop, and the 
beneficience of the mayor, not only for the content of the workshop but 
for my life presence in the town.

One of the concepts that I came back from Poland the last go round was 
that the trees, and wooden architecture, are a connection between the 
earth and the sky. We were there to look at wooden architecture in 
particular and I was the odd one out who looked at the stone. The stone 
in Podlaski is similar to that in the glacial areas of the NE Americas. 
I am curious to see what the geological evidence is slightly SW of 
Warsaw. I want to go look to see for a sculptor whom I am unable to 
learn very much about, as I do not read Polish either, to explore the 
cultural landscape through the media of the natural materials and to see 
to what extent he related to his environment.

I am now curious what the ealier urban planning concepts were that lead 
to the Garden City movement in Poland.

Thnx,
Ken


 Barton wrote:

>What about this one?  At first I thought it was a "retirement home" aka
>assisted living facility, now I'm not so sure.  Ruth
>

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