Modernism & Revolution

Cultural Theme4 places1 route4 works

Modernist movements in art, architecture, and politics. Full narrative coming soon.

Places

City of Gaudí and Revolution

Catalonia, ES

Capital of Memory

Brandenburg, DE

City of Music and Courage

Saxony, DE

City of Resurrections

Masovian, PL

Cycling the Cold War Border

Maurice Ravel

A single unrelenting crescendo — Ravel's orchestral tour-de-force, premiered at the Paris Opéra.

Bernardo Bertolucci

A haunting study of fascism, complicity, and memory set against the architecture of Fascist Rome and Paris.

Salvador Dalí

Dalí's melting watches over the landscape of Cap de Creus — the most iconic image of Surrealism.

Renzo Piano & Richard Rogers

The inside-out museum that turned Paris's plumbing into its façade and redefined what a cultural institution could look like.

Modernism & Revolution