The soul of Modernism - Lithuania 1918-1940 #342718

The modern architecture between the two wars and also after the Second World War played a great role, it had become the memory of the former sovereignty, a symbolic window onto the West, and an example for the Lithuanian architects.Modern architecture is a source of important identity for today’s Kaunas, that now is applying to join the UNESCO World Heritage.The exhibition and the convention do not only tell about the town of Kaunas, as the curators say, but it also talks of the hope that rises and falls, of the efforts of creative activity and of optimism, migration, location and community of ideas and forms, of art and freedom, of war and repression, of the change of the forms of the past and their connection with the present.