Hidden Remains

Why are there so many apartment blocks in the middle of fields? How did the Polish landscape change after 1945? And what role did residential architecture play in this transformation?

The Polish landscape underwent profound changes after the Second World War. War destruction, border shifts, and new political realities meant that rural development was subordinated to the centrally planned economy. Alongside altered methods and the scale of land cultivation, housing forms and construction technologies also changed. New design strategies emerged, as did new, often experimental, methods for shaping rural landscapes. Some of these were never implemented nationwide, while others eventually became established. Today, the remnants of state-owned farms and the experimental village projects of the early postwar years—the so-called "hidden remnants"—provoke reflection on the relationship between space, architecture, and people.

This exhibition, curated by the Architecture Museum in Wrocław and the architecture firm PROLOG, traces the history of changes in Polish villages after the war.

Opening: December 4, 2025, 6 p.m.

Curatorenteam: Agnieszka Obal (MA), Alicja Prusińska, Barbara Szczepańska (MA)