Cracovian modernists - the 60 ties, 90 ties of the XX century - the returns

The period of post-war Poland, called “socialist realism” hindered creative individualism, drawing from the achievements of Western Europe and the US. It was only after the year 1956, the first historic breakthrough in post-war Poland, that an emotional period of coming back to the style of international functionalism could be observed in the designs. In Poland it was only after the year 1956, that the architecture could be called modern. The period of coming back to modernism, called “enchantment with the West”, was a period of active work of eminent Cracovian architects from the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology: Zdzislaw Arct (The building of NOT), Wojciech Bulinski (The office building of “Biprocemwap”), Wladyslaw Bryzek (The Female Students Residence Hall of the Jagiellonian University), Witold Ceckiewicz (The complex of “Cracovia” hotel and “Kijow” cinema), Tadeusz Gawlowski (A house at Falata Street), Zbigniew Gądek (The building at 10a Rajska Street), Maria and Janusz Ingarden (The housing estate on Wzgorza Krzeslawickie), Stanislaw Juszczyk (“University of Agriculture”),