The comprehensive guidebook to modern architecture of Prague charts developments from Art Nouveau and the beginnings of Modern Style at the turn of the 20th century, to the unigue Cubist buildings from the years preceding the First World War, the "National Style" of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic, the Functionalist avant-garde ot he intewar period, some of the most remarkable examples of post-World War II structures, and the revival of architecture after 1989.