PAScapes junior researcher Ineta Šuopytė-Butkienė invites us on a journey through the fate of Soviet-era houses of culture in Lithuania. These buildings, once celebrated as icons of modernization, were designed to replace churches and unite rural communities. Yet, after the collapse of the collective farm system in the 1990s, many of them fell into neglect, while others continue to thrive. What explains this divide?
Read more: “The Vanishing Collective Farm Remains of Lithuanian Rural Landscape: Houses of Culture” in Studies in History and Theory of Architecture 4/2024, special issue “Landscape as Horizon”.
