Functionalism (architecture)
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In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function. An international functionalist architecture movement emerged in the wake o
The tower of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium (Y. Lindegren & T. Jäntti, built in 1934–38)
Secondary Industrial School (Mladá Boleslav), 1927, Jiří Kroha
Villa Tugendhat (Brno), 1928, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Villa Müller (Prague), 1930, Adolf Loos
Khrushchevka
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Khrushchevkas are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union from the early 1960s onwards, when th
Functionalism (architecture)
…Architectural highlights of the city are e.g. the Villa of Tomáš Baťa, Baťa's Hospital, Tomas Bata Memorial, The Grand Cinema or Baťa's Skyscraper. Khrushchyovka (Russian: хрущёвка, IPA: ) is an unofficial name of type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment building which was…
![1-464 [ru] is one of the most common series of large-panel "Khrushchyovkas". In the photo, modification 1-464A built in 1965 in Gatchina](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0._%D0%A3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%2C_28.jpg/500px-%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0._%D0%A3%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%2C_28.jpg)
1-464 [ru] is one of the most common series of large-panel "Khrushchyovkas". In the photo, modification 1-464A built in 1965 in Gatchina
Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk
A typical masonry kommunalka
Residential workers' barracks