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🏠✨ Bata Houses – Zlín’s Modernist Legacy 🇨🇿🌳

In the 1920s and 1930s, under the visionary impulse of Tomáš Baťa, these iconic brick houses rose across Zlín, Moravia. ✨ Conceived as modular dwellings, each with identical plans, they formed the fabric of a utopian industrial city – where work, life, and architecture embraced harmony. 🌐

 

These Bata houses, with their minimalist cubes, flat roofs, and practical dimensions, reflect the social ideals of early modernism: simplicity, rationality, and dignity for workers. ️🌿 Even today, their rhythm along the streets evokes a sense of order and quiet poetry, where geometry meets the human scale. 💭

 

Your photograph captures not only their structure but their soul – the hidden stories embedded in each window and brick. A testimony of a century where architecture became a promise for a better future. ✨

 

📷 Camera: Mamiya C220

🔭 Lens: Sekor 80mm f/2.8

️ Film: Fomapan 100 Exposed : 1/30 f:16,5

Developer: Tetenal Ultra Fin Plus (dilution 1+4)

️ Print: Fibre-based paper Foma N112 Fomabrom baryta 20x20 CM

Paper Developer: Fomatol P

 

 

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Uploaded on February 27, 2012
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