Sunday, June 03, 2007

Communist FUGLY

The Renaissance style was regarded as the style most characteristic of Polish architecture and it was this that was to become Poland`s national form. However, in the course of incorporating the principles of socialist realism there were many deviations, to reflect Soviet architecture more, which resulted in the mutual resemblance of the majority of works and thus the general acceptance of the classicist form. From 1953 critical opinions were increasingly frequently heard and the doctrine was definitely given up in 1956.