Architecture of Katowice
The architecture of Katowice encompasses a diverse range of styles and periods, reflecting the city's history and its development from an industrial centre to a contemporary business and cultural hub. The downtown area, which began developing in the 1840s with a planned street grid and squares, features a variety of buildings, including late-19th- and early-20th-century tenements and public structures in historicist, eclectic, and Art Nouveau styles; modern and International Style buildings from the interwar period; and post-war as well as contemporary structures.