I enjoyed viewing an excellent exhibition of the flowering of Modernist architecture in the birth of the city of Gdynia between the First and Second World Wars... "The City is Born: Modernism in Gdynia between the Wars" was presented by Muzeum Miasta Gdyni (18.09.2014 to 31.12.2014) in the Baltic city Gdynia, Poland.

Built almost entirely from scratch within 15 years, following Poland gaining independence through the Treaty of Versailles in 1918, Gdynia was developed to provide Poland with an independent and free deep-sea port.

Though some of the earliest architecture followed a conventional Polish model, soon, a distinctive modernist approach came to dominate. Gdynia's signature style, linked to international modernism and influenced by art deco, emerged with streamlined ship-like forms in the design of public and private buildings, from exhibition halls to port facilities, commercial office blocks to private house and extensive social housing developments.