%0 Journal Article %T Children games and plays %A Tota, Paulina %J Technical Transactions %V 2015 %N Architecture Issue 9-A (15) 2015 %P 367-373 %K playgrounds, modernism, brutalist architecture, concrete %@ 0011-4561 %D 2016 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/czasopismo-techniczne/article/children-games-and-plays %X The beginning of the 20th century brought discourse on the issue of a new “culture of recreation” and the phenomenon of a relatively new invention – the playground. Play – caring for the body and the spirit – interacted in the work of all the great modernists, and the pope of modernism himself, Le Corbusier. Non-existent now, brutalist playgrounds have become a subject for exhibitions: the play of the new creators-artists, and their game with their antecedents and the contemporary audience.