The twentieth century, built
Modernist Europe
Between about 1920 and 1975 Europe rebuilt itself twice and argued about how the whole time. These are the places where the argument is still standing: social housing that worked, a manifesto in a house, a city rebuilt from nothing, and one that decided not to be rebuilt at all.
8 places across 7 countries · not an itinerary
Rotterdam
Flattened in 1940 and rebuilt as an argument that the past is owed nothing.
Vienna
Red Vienna's housing: Karl-Marx-Hof is a kilometre long and people still live in it.
Utrecht
Rietveld's Schröder House — De Stijl as a building rather than a painting.
Berlin
Every phase of it, including the parts that were built to face each other.
Warsaw
Rebuilt from eighteenth-century paintings, then given a Stalinist tower.
Minsk
One monumental avenue, planned whole, and unusually complete as a piece of design.
Brno
Villa Tugendhat, 1930, and the reason people book months ahead.
Skopje
Rebuilt in concrete after 1963, then rebuilt again in marble, and argued about daily.
Not an itinerary
A theme is a way of seeing, not a route: these places are not in travelling order and most people take three or four of them, not all. For an order that respects distance, put the ones you want into the Planner.
Countries it crosses
Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Czechia, North Macedonia