Functionalism in architecture – the interwar phenomenon or the style overcoming war and socialist realism?

Abstract

The article is focused on the continuing of functionalist style in Czechoslovak architecture after second war. The architectural development of that time could be read as a continual stream from the interwar functionalism, through the late functionalism in 1945-1948 and in the rise of modernism in the end of the 1950s after the socialist realism period, which led to the last period of modernism - and functionalism - in the 1960s.

Keywords

• architectural modernism - late functionalism - international style - postwar Czechoslovak architecture - Brussels Expo 1958