A Polish visionary who wanted to transform Modernist architecture to respond to the conditions of real life
Author Archives: Agata Pyzik
Vkhutemas: The ‘Soviet Bauhaus’
Architecture, textiles, painting and sculpture were fused in this short-lived haven for experimental practice
View from Warsaw
A unique estate of postwar housing, and with it an alternative vision of urban life, is under threat as former publicly owned land is privatised
Milk Bars: the Polish face of gentrification?
This redesigned and reopened milk bar in Warsaw preserves some of its Soviet-era aesthetic qualities but fails to preserve the milk bar’s crucial social function