An Overview of Standard Designs Developed for Public Buildings in Lithuania During the 1920s and 1930s

Standardization of Lithuanian interwar public buildings began in the early 1920s and continued throughout the 1930s. This process was mainly driven by the young state’s need for various types of public buildings, especially in the provinces. To speed up the needed construction, certain types of such buildings began to be constructed according to standard design projects. Thus, the article, through the selected examples, aims to present the development of standardization practices in public architecture which were carried out in Lithuania at that time. It is assumed that despite the ambitions to expand the standardization of public architecture, this was not a smooth process. Thus, while a number of standard designs of public buildings were quite successfully used in practice, there were cases when such designs were not even implemented in practice.