Sanatoria, holiday centres and summer camps become an entry into the social world of communist-era Poland.

Błażej Ciarkowski examines places built to organise bodies, leisure and collective life. Choose this for readers who enjoy understanding society through its buildings. The attraction is the movement between design ideas and the experiences of people expected to rest, recover or belong within those spaces.

WHO IS IT FOR?

For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.