Notes for a contemporary architectural ethics
Text: Antonello Stella
“Taking care” – this is, I think, the most cogent incipit in contemporaneity and posed by this call. We architects cannot avoid to take care of the world in which …
Utóirat
Meaningful Architectural Ornamentation
On the Synagogue by Lipót Baumhorn in Szeged
Footnotes of a doctoral thesis
Text and photos: Ágnes Ivett Oszkó
Lipót Baumhorn was one of the most fertile architects of synagogues not only in historic Hungary but also in Europe …
Thoughts on Social Stability
Architecture and sociology at the 2nd National Architect’s Salon
Text: László Antal Z.
Photo: Béla Ilovszky / theater.hu
Ferenc Miszlivetz sociologist delivered one of the speeches at the opening ceremony of the 2nd Architects’ Salon. In this article, László …
FutureHall
Thought-provoking conference in the Kunsthalle
FutureHall – Architecture in the era of 3D printing, Kunsthalle, Budapest, 25 May 2019
Text: Mária Tatai
„Architecture in the era of 3D printing” has been chosen as the subtitle of the conference held …
Common Irregularities
Creative week at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Technology, Debrecen
Text: Gergely Hory, Zoltán Major, Péter Müllner (Prtzn Architecture)
Photos: Zsófia Roszkos, Prtzn Architecture
Being supervisors of the topic, we were invited to the creative week organised by …
Materialism and Idealism
The Contemporary Hungarian Heritage Preservation
Summer University on Monument Protection, Eger, 2019
Text: Gábor Nagy
The chief topic of this year’s course of the Heritage Preservation Summer University in Eger was Potentials and methods to restore values hidden in …
The Disruption of the Cityscape
Text: Paul Virilio†
Translation: Ármin Tillmann
Even if a contemporary city may be still defined as a location or a geographical position, we should not mistake it for the contrast between the urban and rural, or that of the …
Perception experiments on facade designs
The workshop of the New Vision
Text: Anna Losonczi
In this study I am presenting the group of creative professionals specialized in visual perception referred to as the New Vision (new sight, new approach, new visions) with special emphasis …
Peter Halley: Heterotopia
L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Velence, 7 May – 10 August 2019
Text: Bálint Botzheim
Photos: Hanna Szegő
During the time of the fine arts biennale Venice turns into a genuine store of art pieces. All over the …
Cubic Fates
The reinterpretation of Hungary’s cubic houses building stock
Text and illustration: Tünde Krisztina Tóth
From the mid-20th century on, cubic houses mushroomed with an unstoppable speed, which deeply hit the history of Hungarian housing development. The overwhelming majority of …
Where is the Architecture of the Future Born?
10+1 questions on the Solar Decathlon
Text: István Csúsz (KOEB)
Photos: Képkocka / Gergő Potyondi
Solar Decathlon is a series of contests with 10 challenges for university students ambitioning to popularize sustainable architecture and experiments to find new solutions. …
Commemorating Jenő Rimanóczy
Text: András Ferkai
Yet another outstanding representative of the great old generation has left us behind. Jenő Rimanóczy, an architect awarded Ybl Prize passed away on June 29th. Starting his career after 1956, he was a member of the …