All that modernism…
First published on my old blog in October 2010; lightly edited for this site.
I really like Modernism. When I was a student, I used to live in a house built in the 1930s, designed according to the principles of Modernism and Functionalism, and I loved it. Then, walking the streets of Barcelona, I suddenly realised why I like it so much: it felt like being a student again, walking home from a nice party!
In Poland, Modernism has two phases: before 1939 and after 1945. The Second World War and Socrealism right after 1945 sit between the two layers of this modernist waffle. Below is a selection of the most famous buildings, and some of my favourites. Click a picture to enlarge it.
All pictures come from Wikimedia Commons; the file names are those used there, where the author and licence of each image are listed.
