Vilnius 1900-2016: an architectural guide
Vilnius 1900-2016: an architectural guide
Vilnius architecture of the 20th and early 21st centuries ranges from the Modern Style to High-Tech, and reflects all the architectural trends and political shifts that swept across the city during this period.
At the dawn of the 20th century, the elegant Central European Sezession style was still in vogue. Architecture later progressed to the striped-down interwar Modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, and afer the Second World War it ventured into the contravesial soviet-imposed Neoclassicism. In the mid-1950’s, postwar Modernism flourished, particularly in the new residential districts that were built to house the city’s growing population. At the end of the Soviet period, Late Modernism saw large number of public buildings appear around the city centre.
With the reestablishment of independence in 1990 Vilnius experienced yet another wave of urbanization. Private houses were built again, filling the city to the limits, and a spectacular steel and glass city centre took shape on the right bank of River Neris.
Vilnius, 1900-2016 : an architectural guide / [Marija Drėmaitė, Rūta Leitanaitė, Nijolė Lukšionytė, Karolis Kučiauskas, Diana Kontrimaitė, Algimantas Mačiulis, Vaidas Petrulis, Julija Reklaitė, Jurgita Rimkevičienė, Indrė Ruseckaitė, Jūratė Tutlytė, Aida Štelbienė, Renata Vaičekonytė-Kepežinskienė] ; [editors Marija Drėmaitė, Rūta Leitanaitė, Julija Reklaitė] ; [translated by Andrius Gailiūnas, Gabrielė Gailiūtė, Rūta Leitanaitė] ; Architektūros fondas. – Vilnius : Lapas, [2016] (Vilnius : BALTO print). – 352 p. : iliustr.