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Buildings reveal their magical power always in unexpected moments. They enable dialogue with the landscape, let them delight in it, feel it better and understand it. Understanding architecture is understanding the world in which we live every day" - excerpt from the "Book of Delights" Author of best-selling books Miedzianka "," Bathtub with a colonnade "or" 13 floors "this time prepared a guide to what is beautiful, significant, nightmarish, monumental and spectacular in Poland. Filip Springer has traveled all over Poland, and now we, following in his footsteps, can look again at buildings that delight or frighten. But this book is more than a guide on Polish architecture over the past seventy years. It is also a story about Polish history - the history of Polish taste, thinking about space, about what is nice and what is useful, written in stone, glass, concrete and aluminum. The author, traveling through Poland, found interesting projects that arose in all its corners after 1945. With a proper insight, erudition and truly English sense of humor, he talks about a variety of buildings: - known, like the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, - completely forgotten, like a department store in Mława, - old, like the planetarium in Chorzów, - quite new, like Pixel in Poznań, - spectacular, like the Sky Tower in Wrocław, - inconspicuous, like a rural club room in Rakownia. "When reading this guide, remember the words of Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen that buildings should be explored actively and after reading best to leave the house and meet them in person" - excerpt from the "Book of Delights"