Europan has decided to make the concept of The Adaptable City the theme of the Europan 12 session. Europe’s cities are engaged in a radical transformation: they need urgently to reduce their ecological footprint to help resolve the energy crisis, combat the greenhouse effect and preserve nonrenewable resources.
Conference about the protection of monuments
Lectures about the reconstruction of Várkert Bazár from different points of view, the reconstruction of the Open-air Theatre in Margaret Island, support possibilities in the field of monument protection, and new technologies and forms in historical preservation.
Entries are now invited for the 2013 European Copper in Architecture Awards 16 – a showcase for architects designing with copper and its alloys to promote their work to an international audience. The final deadline for receipt of entries is 31st May 2013. Buildings of any size or type, completed between May 2011 and May 2013…
The european student competition on sustainable architecture was launched in 2006 by the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, together with a Europe-wide network of partner schools; “Leading European Universities in Sustainable Architecture” The schools of the network contribute to the competition by organizing parallel activities…
The winners of the 2013 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards were unveiled by the European Commission and Europa Nostra. The 30 winners are honoured for their achievements in four areas: conservation, research, dedicated service, and education, training and awareness-raising.
The Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ) invites you to the exhibition Ybl Prize 2013
MÉSZ Kós Károly Hall
2th April – 12th April 2013
The Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ) and the Architectural Photographers Open Society invite you to the exhibition
Opitz Tomas: Urban details
MÉSZ Kós Károly Hall
26th March – 5th April 2013
Toyo Ito, a 71 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Tokyo, Japan, will be the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which was founded in 1979 by the late Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy, is to honor annually a living architect whose built work…
Social housing
György Alföldi DLA (Department of Urban Studies)
József Hegedüs PhD (Városkutatás Kft.)
András Szekér (Habitat Hungary Kft.)
FUGA, Budapest 28th March 2013, 6 p.m.
Ybl Prize is the most prestigious architectural recognition in Hungary, which is awarded to professionals active in the construction and formation of the environment combined with the protection of values. Ybl Prize winners: Bálint Bachmann DLA, Marcel Ferencz DLA, Ágnes Kravár, Csaba Molnár, Béla Sisa
For a long time the most popular communication tool is the photography. It is almost our partner. We live with it every day. But in addition to our “loved ones” we have to face with thousands of photos flowing us in chaotic mass. It is understandable that – perhaps because of self-defence, or like the instincts of a drowning man…
“In those many relations between photography and architecture, the photographer’s attention mainly concentrate to the light, the shadow and the structure. In architecture the form and structure becomes significant – like in photography – by the light. No surprise then, when the camera itself makes the expression of the built world”