Complex buildings in transition: Baltic Spa Towns and Soviet Sanatoriums

Soviet sanatoriums, where relatively healthy workers accessed up-to-date healing practices, differed from earlier ones in scale, programme and architectural expression. In Baltic spa towns, such settings for collective vacation rituals opened a field for architectural experimentation, replaced a former international upper-class fruition. Whether reused or still abandoned, they epitomise the idea of “complex building” from a non-western perspective.