FIELD NOTES / LTU / Northern Europe
Lithuania
Interwar facades & modern urban life.
START WITH A PLACE
Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939
Kaunas expanded rapidly as Lithuania’s provisional capital between the world wars. Public buildings, housing and urban spaces adapted modern architectural ideas to an existing town and its growing civic role.
Read the source UNESCO World Heritage CentreA CLOSER LOOK
A study in mass and surface.
Compare the geometry of an interwar facade with the older street it occupies. Where does a modern building continue the city rather than interrupt it?
An editorial observation prompt, grounded in the reference above.
WORKING COLOUR
A palette to begin with.
Five editorial tones for this surface family. Use them as a starting point for a study; they are not measured samples from the site.
Limestone paper#eee7d8oklch(0.929 0.021 85.945)
Warm sediment#c6ad86oklch(0.760 0.060 78.678)
Earth ochre#a36545oklch(0.568 0.092 47.550)
Weathered slate#657d79oklch(0.569 0.029 184.084)
Carbon ink#282b2boklch(0.286 0.004 196.917)