Day Nursery, Nagykovácsi Architect: László Földes Text: Ágnes Bechtold Photos: Levente Sirokai Nagykovácsi is a cul-de-sac village on the margins of Budapest. It is located in a beautiful, protected, peaceful natural neighbourhood. Its unique property is that many of its inhabitants are families with young children (25 % of its population are children) and communal […]
Folyóirat
Architecture in a Borderline Situation
ArtKazal, Mórahalom Architects: Csilla Nagy, Zoltán Tóth Text: Anett Mizsei Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The playfulness of designers and the experimental attitude of architects resulted in this apartman house with a hatched roof modelled on the analogy of a rectangular straw stack on the margins of Mórahalom. It impresses us as if it was not designers […]
The Chocolate Odour of a Sugar Store
Cyclists’ Tourism Centre and Local History Museum, Szerencs Architect: Miklós Salamin Text: Ivett Madár Photos: György Dénes The Sugar Factory in Szerencs was founded in 1889. During its 120 but one years of existence the town also underwent radical changes and development. The chocolate factory was launched in 1923 but developed only after the arrival […]
Past salvaged into the future
Reconstruction Project of Degenfeld-Schonburg Castle, Téglás Architect: Miklós Heppes Text: Gábor Nagy Photos: Tibor Zsitva Respectable in its dimensions and scales, the single-storey Revivalist Classicist style castle was built in 1835 for Imre Degenfeld-Schonburg and his wife. The lateral structures surround an elevated grand court above the terrain which makes the appearance of the building […]
Perspectives of Faith
The Development of the Surroundings of the Pilgrims’ Church, Máriapócs Architects: Ferenc Salamin, Pál Salamin Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: György Dénes, Bálint Botzheim The situation after getting rid of the Turkish rule made it possible to create the iconostasis presenting God’s Mother, the Virgin Mary in a tiny village in the Nyírség region which was […]
I’ll be a Pilot
Reptár – the museum of military aircrafts, Szolnok Architects: Béla Keresztes, Róbert Sós Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Áron Lality It was a practical and self-evident opportunity for the city of Szolnok to found a museum of military aircrafts which is a worthwhile collection to European standards. The military airport still in operation today – at […]
Renewed memory
National Museum’s Dialogue Centre, Szczecin Architect: Robert Konieczny Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Jakub Certowicz, Juliusz Sokołowski, Jarosław Syrek For years, the Solidarności Square had been a square by name only – with vague borders, open frontages, burdensome busy street neighborhood and the absence of a defined function, despite the dominating one – to commemorate the […]
HÁZ+MESTEREK presentation and discussion
FUGA, Budapest, 9 May 2017 Presentation of the HÁZ + MESTEREK portrait film series made by the cooperation of the MOME Institute of Architecture and the Association of Hungarian Architects. The roundtable discussion with the architects, of whom the portrait films about was moderated by Krizstina Somogyi visual intelligence researcher.
Samples and Images
On Hungarian church architecture with Ferenc Török, aged 80 Interview: Zorán Vukoszávlyev, Gréta Garai Photos: Zorán Vukoszávlyev The opening of the oeuvre exhibition of Ferenc Török held in Vigadó in 2016 was a genuinely emotional experience of his childhood memories, drawings, models, friends, students, fellow architects, and formative characters of churches. Ferenc Török, a designer […]
A Socialist Spectacle?
Definition of the Memory. Symbols of Socialist Realism, OSA, Centralis Gallery, Budapest, 02. 02. – 19. 03. 2017 Text: Sándor Hornyik Photos: Dániel Végel / Blinken OSA Archívum The exhibition titled Symbols of Socialist Art című in the Budapest gallery of Open Society Archive interprets the visual paradigms of the era in a critical way […]
20 Years of Budapest Club
Conference at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 3 December 2016 Text: Iván Vitányi In the middle of the last century there seemed to be a new unique opportunity opening up for mankind. We felt there is a good chance for us to achieve welfare societies, well-being and democracy at the same time. Society was layered […]
Community and Architecture
Complex Designing Approaches Text: Katalin Fazekas By the definition of Public Interest Design Institute, which was founded by the American Bryan Bell, social architecture is a humanistic is a participative practice of design which stresses the importance of ecological, economic and social issues, and also creates products, structures and systems that touch upon such problems […]