The ideal bureaucratic office: Prague 1937

Alejandro Polanco Masa
3 min readApr 17, 2023

In Futurama, bureaucrat Hermes Conrad is happy when he visits a landmark for him and all bureaucrats: the gigantic Central Bureaucracy complex with millions of filing cabinets. In the real world there is a place that is even more impressive: the Czech Social Security Office in Prague. The pictures in this article were taken in 1937, shortly after the facility opened.

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