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Text: Attila Turi Architect Imre Makovecz was the most significant Hungarian master builder of the last third of the 20th century. If we view architecture not only as an engineering and artistic activity aimed at creating objects, but also as a healing act aimed at community building and improving community and social relations, we will […]
Makó, Municipal Thermal and Adventure Baths Complex Text: Judit Gerencsér The image of the town of Makó is fundamentally defined by the architecture of Imre Makovecz, thanks to its management back in those days. The magical architectural complex named Hagymatikum stands out even among the architect’s other completed buildings with its conceptuality, richness of thoughts, […]
Text: Imre Makovecz The interior and exterior spaces of the planned church, the bridges built inside the church, and the saints and damned souls walking on them all come together to represent the world of salvation and judgment for those arriving at the church. At the intersection of the bridges stands Archangel Michael, bearing the […]
Text: Eszter Götz In 2015, a decision unprecedented in Hungarian culture was made: Government Resolution No. 2022/2015 (XII. 29.) on the preservation of Imre Makovecz’s oeuvre established the Imre Makovecz Fund for the implementation of plans and renovation of buildings that form part of Imre Makovecz’s heritage. (XII. 29.), which, in addition to the worthy […]
Text: Pál Makovecz Shortly after Imre Makovecz’s death, in early 2012, the Imre Makovecz Foundation was established to manage his heritage. In addition to family members, colleagues, students, and friends of Imre Makovecz hold and have held positions in this foundation. Meanwhile, Imre Makovecz’s heirs decided to offer the architect’s own house, which he did […]
Text: Gábor Kampis When the Imre Makovecz Foundation started their work, they set themselves the goal of creating a digital database that would contain, organize, and thus make searchable all of Imre Makovecz’s plans, graphic works, writings, and objects that could be found and were available in the Archive, as well as audio and video […]
Text: Gábor Mezei In the mid-1960s, interior designer Gábor Mezei met Imre Makovecz while working as a designer for SZÖTERV, and was deeply impressed by his approach to style. Following Makovecz’s example, he also rebelled against the monotony and dullness of modernist industrial architecture and began to design in his own unique style. With his […]
Text: Benjamin Makovecz In his poetically beautiful writing, Benjamin Makovecz attempts to describe the slowly unfolding and ever increasingly intimate relationship between father and son from the early 1960s until 2011, the year of Imre Makovecz’s death. The writer’s perspective is that of a „young boy from Pest”, and the tone of his writing is […]
MÉSZ-MÉK Diploma Award 2023 Concept and text: Dóra Tihanyi, BME Consultant: Péter Kronavetter DLA The Pauline monastery of Kőkút („Stone Well”) in Salföld is one of the oldest monuments of the order, with a history dating back to the 1260s. The scheme proposes to enhance the significance of the site and to develop its uses. […]
MÉK-MÉSZ Diploma Award 2023 Text and concept: Mátyás Weisz Consultant: Balázs Falvai DLA Theatre education, drama pedagogy as a form of education and training combines traditional education with the theatre, and thus makes learning more colourful for children. Drama education training takes place mostly on-site in schools. The plan will provide a home for theatre […]
Strategies for the new challenges of a new century Text: Bálint Botzheim In our current thematic issue, we present different strategies for how the architect can be mindful of the effects on the environment. The first of the presented strategies is recycling. Why build a new one, if the existing building can be adapted to […]
Diploma Thesis Concept and text: Marcell Szuhanyik As we enter the 21st century, retreats are not just religiously motivated and led. Through a variety of systems of thought, as part of physical and spiritual exercises, and also as a contrast to our everyday life, time spent alone or in a group with the same purpose […]
Developing the centre of a settlement, Gyermely Architects: Péter Gereben, Balázs Marián Text: Szilvia Molnár Photos: Balázs Danyi Having in-depth knowledge of the structure of the village Gyermely, the team named Gereben Marián Architects managed by Balázs Marián DLA and Péter Gereben found themselves a challenge here at the end of the 2000s. As a […]
Facelifted Benedictine Convent House, Kőszeg Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Dr. Ferenc Miszlivetz Photos: Tibor Ohr An eventful year started in 2014 when ISES Foundation was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office to work out a study on viability with the aim to save the architectural heritage of Kőszeg almost on the brink of complete deterioration […]
Intimacy, creativity, flow Text: Tamás Fejérdy, Ferenc Miszlivetz, Laura Takács Architectural spaces do not tend to be utility calculations in the case of historic towns, as they are born based on human needs, well-established and fixed habits, the respect of old times, the gripping effect of the view, that is natural, cultural and aesthetic codes. […]
Volcanoes Park, Zalahaláp Sculptors: Rhea Marmentini, Zoltán Balanyi Text: Balázs Szász Photos: Rhea Marmentini, Zoltán Balanyi Born in a family of doctors and artists, Chilean-Hungarian sculptor Rhea Marmentini started to realize one of her long-time dream at the meeting point of Mediterranean and continental climates: to reconstruct a wound on the landscape of Haláp Hill, […]
