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Sokszem project report – Hungarian Institut in Paris

Date: 25. 03. 2010. 19:00
Venue: Sokszem (Budapest, Fejér György u. 3.)
www.sokszem.hu

The face of the Town/Sepsiszentgyörgy
Exhibition of József S. Sebestyén
22. 03. 2010 – 05. 04. 2010.
Vernissage: 22. 03. 2010. 17.30
Association of Hungarian Architects

In the framework of its action in favour of sustainable development, the Fondation Alliances is launching an international competition for the design of a Technical Training Centre for sustainable development. The building will be exemplary and used for education and training.

New Ornament and Organic Architecture exhibition
Vernissage: 2010.03.16. 19:00

Hungarian Institut in Paris
16-31. 03. 2010.

True to the interferences of avant-garde in Berlin–Vienna–Budapest, the exhibition in Frankfurt presents 170 objects d’art including experimental works and suppletory documents based on which contemporary photography, film and theatre art, plastic art, painting an typography would not be the same.

Although some 150 pages of the 1100-paged volume are devoted to modern times, this publication appears to be a static historic work compared to the dynamic world of its author. He underlines that city/architecture „is not an independent genre, but an integral part of regional-urban development.”

The first thing striking us that it is not a bodywork-like, a UFO-object, a veil inspired by fine arts, a symbolic sign, or an image referring to something else – even though it does create a very familiar spatial situation and marks the corner in a highly influential way.

A designer of several emblematic contemporary buildings, Péter Basa Ybl-prized architect died at the age of 46. Among others, he was the designer of the Church of Hungarians Over the Frontier in Budakeszi for which he was awarded Pro Architectura prize and he also contributed to the designs of the Hungarian pavillion built for the Expo in Hannover, 2000.

Functioning to host six groups of children, the building with a ground plan of approximately 1,400 m2 is not opened from the street. Thanks to the local authority the Calvinist church had received two long building sites available for this purpose, which made it possible to have the kindergarten built further at the back of it, far from the busy main road.

The exhibition presenting the restored painting by Maulbertsch from the cathedral in Szombathely is hosted by the Hungarian National Gallery. The church was bombed in March 1945 destroying not only the frescoes of the vaulting, but also tearing into hundreds of pieces the monumental Visitation-composition of the high altar.

Built on a post-industrial housing estate in the north of Turin, the complex comprises a heptagonal church accentuated with spires and an L-shaped wing of the parish embracing it. The two structures surround an urban square functioning as the venue suited for major events. The main entrance opens from here.