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Invited by the department of residential buildings of the Budapest Technical University, Monika Bilska and Kristof Crolla, two young architects from Zaha Hadid Architects held a one-week workshop in October, 2009. The idea of this creative week was born at AA School and has already been organized in several countries since then.

A dream of mine cherished for a long time is to document a significant historic building of Transylvania based on a detailed survey carried out with my friends and colleagues for posterity. I first visited Magyarvista in the summer of 1986 accompanied by Géza Pap, a Calvinist minister from Kiskapus.

An astonishing manifestation of European modernism is the architecture associated with Tito’s name prevailing especially in Serbia, the former member state of Yugoslavia accepting the ideology of communism to the full. The official art of Yugoslavia in the latter half of the 20th century amalgamated the neutrality of late modernism.

The Bologna-tendency radically transformed the training of architects in Hungary. The first grade was launched in 2006 at the Department of Architecture in Budapest Technical University as a training of two cycles of BSc majors, and as Architects’ integral five-year course.

Introduced at the Department of Civic Building Design, the academic subject referred to as „minor complex” is a one-term training open to 30 students admitted to be specialized in designing after they have finished 6 semesters in the new (two-stage) educational system giving them a task of design lasting one term.

The realization of the development of the Campus of the College of Nyíregyháza are worth considering due to its complexity. The College of Nyíregyháza – as the biggest higher education institute of the town and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county has always endeavoured to increase its regional role, strengthen its position.

Exhibition of the Hungarian Textile Artist Eszter Bornemisza

Budapest Gallery, 04-21. 02. 2010
(1056 Bp., Szabad sajtó út 5.)

In its exhibition to open at the end of January the Museum of Fine Arts will display selected masterpieces from the uniquely wealthy collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The fifty-five works in the exhibition provide an overview of French painting from the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

Paradise on Earth is humanity’s eternal vision and dream of perfection, of nature, of harmony between people, of a golden age that never existed – one of the most inexhaustible subjects of art. The exhibited selection of 102 works by 53 different artists is embedded in this vast thematic framework. The exhibition offers a walk through five thematic sections.

Martin Elsaesser and the New Frankfurt
10. 10. 2009 – 14. 03. 2010

TV Towers – 8,559 Meters Politics and Architecture
03. 10. 2009 – 14. 03. 2010

The exhibition called Trust presents the works of the young sculptors studying or qualificated at the art faculty of University of Pécs. A collective exhibition directed inside the frameworks of a genre inside the art, that prepared in the recent past, automatically presents valuable informations about the state of the given genre.

Born in Monok in 1932, Sándor Hrabóczki designed this building. Being a skilled bricklayer and having worked for a designers’ office in Miskolc as a draughtsman, he passed a specialized matriculation exam with the vocational school in Kecskemét. He had his degree in 1959 and received his golden diploma in 2009.