Communication of Globalising Tribes

The Frankfurt-based Weltkulturen Museum opened its anthropological collection for contemporary design and art, as well as a project area joining the museum building suited to host atelier programmes based on this collection. This initiative could not have been more suitingly scheduled as tribal culture and art has burst to surface with a rush in…

Armand Puig Tàrrech: Gaudí and the Sagrada Família

The topic of the new volume of the series ‘Image-philosophy’ of Typotex is architecture, art history. The building is Spain’s most visited tourist attraction, but according to the author’s concept the book prepares you to see Gaudí’s “vision of peace” as a pilgrimage. In fact, the volume interprets Gaudí’s concept and the Christian mysticism in contemporary…

Orsolya Bubryák: Genealogy and Representation

Orsolya Bubryák started to work on the patronage of the Erdődy family in 2003. The brand new book on this topic presents the results of her research widen to the genealogy and the history of the Endrődy family. The dominant building is a renaissance-baroque Erdődy Castle built in 1720. The castle is built on the place of a pre-existing…

In Memoriam Zoltán Horváth Figura

You shared with us countless memories spent in your school years in Debrecen. Yes, they were in the sixties, jeans, hopes, long hair, music, girls, also with the Prague Spring. You applied for the Univesity of Applied Arts, but it didn’t work out, so we met in Csongrad as the students of architecture. Around 1974 we realized that our vision could become…

In Memoriam Iván Bächer

Iván Bächer was a Hungarian writer, journalist, playwright and publicist. Bächer wrote as a critic for the Hungarian daily newspaper Népszabadság. He was not an architecture critic, although his writings were permeated by his thoughts on architecture, while he analyzed the relationship between housing and human. He also published…