Warsaw's 2 Modernist buildings reflect a city rebuilt from near-total destruction, where modern architecture carried the weight of national recovery. Jan Bogusławski and Bohdan Gniewiewski's Smolna 8 — a Brutalist-Functionalist hybrid from the socialist era — combines raw concrete with rational planning, its exposed structural grid serving both aesthetic and ideological purposes.
Wojciech Kowalczyk and Andrzej Ustian's St. Maximilian Kolbe Church applies Modernist restraint to the sacred programme: clean geometries, natural light as the primary material, and an absence of ornament that channels attention toward spiritual experience. Together, these buildings show Warsaw's Modernism as simultaneously pragmatic and deeply felt.
