🏠✨ 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
maison_bata_001_20x20_cm_baryta_fomapan_classic
🏠✨ 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
maison_bata_001_20x20_cm_baryta_fomapan_classic