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In the 1950s, Alison and Peter Smithson, somewhat unfortunately used the term brutalism to name an emerging trend. In English, the element of brutality of this term turned out to be very strong, creating negative thinking about architecture made of raw concrete. However brutalism is not only the rawness of the material, it is also an expressive architectural form, and this rawness emphasizes this expressiveness. Brutalist architecture is often sculptural, but above all it is massive, dominating over its surroundin...

Cracow is a city with the ambition of being the cultural capital of Poland. If we consider that museums are the architectural barometer of our time - the period before the political changes of 1989 can be considered lost for Cracow. In the years between 1937 and 1994 not a single museum had been built, as they were set up within existing historical buildings that were nationalised by the state. Meanwhile, the end of the twentieth century in Europe and around the world was the golden age of museums. Thousands of th...