Forum for leading architects and entrepreneurs Text: Mária Tatai This year’s international SHARE Forum took place at the Ethnographic Museum in Városliget (City Park) on 14th May. The tightly intensive programme, including 18 presentations in three blocks. The spectacle offered and the message itself was very specific, but also very concentrated, with speakers from many […]
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Celestial Courtyard
A critical analysis of the Museum of Astronomy Shanghai Text: Kristóf Mánya This paper deals with the analysis of the Shanghai Astrology Museum viewing it as a cultural product. The museum is a reflection on the relationship between humans and their universe. In his description of the museum, chief designer Thomas Wong speaks about the […]
Ornament
beyond the Canon Text: Zsolt Gunther If we talk about ornamentation beyond the canon, we must also address the canonization of decoration. The foundations of this were laid by the architectural theorists of antiquity and the Renaissance. Vitruvius’ ten books, Alberti’s ten books, and Palladio’s four books all contribute to this foundation. Gottfried Semper, and […]
Artificial Intelligence for Architects
Competing engineering and artistic approaches Text: Bálint Botzheim The latest advances in artificial intelligence, generative-based image and text chatbots, have suddenly exploded into our everyday lives. On a daily basis we can read news reports that put the new features of chatbots sometimes in a positive or a negative context. New tools have also emerged […]
Variations and Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Architectural Design Process
AI for architects Text: Kincső Mária Tankó Artificial intelligence is making huge advances every day and is becoming more and more prominent in many fields, such as architecture. This raises a common question among architects: At the moment, what can artificial intelligence do? What versions of it can we apply to architectural design? Can it […]
Annual General Meeting of the Association of Hungarian Architects
House of Architects, 27 May Text and photos: Association of Hungarian Architects The annual general meeting of the the Association of Hungarian Architects was held on 27 May at the House of Architects, where András Krizsán, outgoing president, gave a ceremonial introduction. Afterwards he listed in detail the activities of MÉSZ 2023, both national and […]
Local Value
3rd National Salon of Architecture, Kunsthalle Budapest Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: György Dénes The title of Chief Curator of the 3rd National Salon of Architecture was awarded to Eszter Dénes, architect and architectural writer, in a competition organised by the MMA. The basic concept of the exhibition is to present the materials in four rooms, […]
Csete
György Csete, Ildikó Csete and the Pécs Group Text: András Hadik Photos: Zsófia Nyirkos / Kunsthalle Budapest The exhibition presents the works of György Csete (1937–2016), one of the founding fathers of Hungarian organic architecture, and his wife, the textile artist Ildikó Csete (1940–2018), together with the works of the Pécs Youth Office from the […]
A Worthy Commemoration
KÓS 140 – The workshop of Károly Kós Text: Gábor Nagy Photos: Kunsthalle Budapest Károly Kós (1883–1977) was an architect whose wide-ranging architectural activities spanned much of the 20th century and many of its history-making periods. At the beginning of his career, before the First World War, as a leading figure of the so-called ‘Young […]
From Transylvania to Tibet
Kőrösi Csoma Sándor Memorial House, Kovászna Architect: Lőrinc Csernyus Text: Éva Ferencz Photos: Bence Csernyus In the spring of 1784, in Csomakőrös, near Kovászna, Sándor Csoma was born. He is a world-famous Tibetologist and Orientalist, whose work and intellectual heritage were respected by the local community, despite the authorities’ prohibition. The public cultural association bearing […]
Dialogue
Reconstruction of Sipeki Balás Mansion, Budapest Architects: Balázs Falvai, Márton Nagy, Bettina Ónodi, Dávid Török Text: Miklós Vannay Photos: Antal Bánhegyesy The Sipeki Balás Mansion is one of the last works of Ödön Lechner, a romantic, dynamic, complex volume, a work of art, with an original metal structure conservatory facing the front garden, and folk […]
Projected into Space
Solium Regni ¬Exhibition and Stone Garden, Coronation Basilica National Monument Visitor Centre Architects: Tibor Gerzsenyi, Tamás Karácsony Text: Péter Klobusovszki Photos: Tamás Réthey-Prikkel The ruins of the Royal Basilica in Székesfehérvár as well as the ruins of the Royal Monastery of St. Stephen, and the surrounding complex of buildings were completed in 1938, on the […]