Modernism

Architectures erected after the so-called Polish thaw of 1956 are more modern than the those built in the period from 1950 to 1956 in the socialist realist style. Scattered and freely arranged, in the outskirts of residential estates, the buildings in modernist style include stores on the ground floor that are aligned with the main streets. Separate modern commercial and service buildings were also constructed. The most successful modernist designs, however, are found in the central part of Nowa Huta. These include the Swedish Block (1957-1959, designed by M. Ingarden and J. Ingarden), the French Block (1957-1959, designed by K. Chodorowski), the Poland’s Millennium Memorial primary school (1960-1961, designed by J. Gołąb) and the musical school (1959-1974, designed by M. Jabłoński).