@ARTICLE{Motak_Maciej_Marian_2024,
 author={Motak, Maciej},
 volume={vol. LII/2},
 pages={3-24},
 journal={Teka Komisji Urbanistyki i Architektury Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk w Krakowie},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Polsh Academy of Sciences, Branch in Kraków (Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie)},
 abstract={The main purpose of this paper is to present the biography, activities and achievements of engineer Marian Lenk: an urban planner educated in Lviv and working in Krakow, whose greatest achievements took place in the mid-1920s. The paper relied mainly on source materials from archives in Krakow (regulatory plans and development plans authored or co-authored by Lenk, as well as information on the course of his professional work) and Lviv (information on the course of his studies). In addition to document analysis, the following methods were used in the study: knowledge gathering, comparative analysis, site studies, interview (with M. Lenk’s grandson). As a result of the research work, it was established that Marian Lenk made at least about 120–130 plans of considerable thematic diversity, most of them in co-authorship. It was also found that the less numerous plans of individual authorship by Lenk are testimony to the designer’s high professional and creative competence. They constitute an important part of the achievements of Kraków urban planning of the interwar period and allow Lenk to be recognised as the leading, next to Andrzej Kłeczek, creator of Kraków urban planning of the 1920s. Particularly distinctive — with their formal, functional and orientation values — are the designs of local, small urban squares that constitute fragments of some of Lenk’s regulatory plans. Among the distinctive features of squares designed by Lenk are both unique and rational shapes of their plans and interiors, as well as excellent connections with urban structures, both existing and planned.},
 title={Marian Lenk (1878–1961), Krakow town-planner, designer of squares},
 type={Article},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134389/2024-TEKA-03.pdf},
 keywords={regulatory plan, interwar period, Kraków, building plan, city square},
}