The Rebirth of a Farm House

Jutta Görlich artist and Peter Haimler architect decided to have their family home in Germany, in the tiny illage of Viechtach near the Czech border. The house they chose was a peasant house built around 1840 far away from the village. It is a building of traditional construction in which people and animals live side by side only separated by a wall.

The Main Facade of the Parliament

During the twelve years of the reconstruction of the facades of the Parliamenr facing the River Danube we had been in touch with almost every single stone component of the structure with the exception of the previously completed drum, the blocks housing the session rooms projecting out of the roofing and the northern tower.

Civil Respect, Courtesy and Prosperity

The inner districts of Pest have undergone a transformation since the change of the political system which hardly ever strikes us due to the lack of spectacular changes in our architectural environment. The number of inhabitants in Terézváros has dropped by one third in the past two decades.

Renaissance ethos – contemporary views

The most comprehensive exhibition to date dedicated to the Italian Renaissance will run in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest from 28 October. The large-scale exhibition entitled Botticelli to Titian. Masterpieces of Two Centuries of Italian Painting will display paintings on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts from over fifty museums.

DAM Prize for Architecture 2009

Since 1980 the Annual brought out by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum assesses the best buildings of the respective year, and has long established itself as an indispensable reference work and a guide of the current German architecture scene. However, two new aspects should be mentioned: all the buildings presented in the Annual are also presented in an exhibition.

…on the eastern front

The exhibition examines the effects of the changes taking place in the region of the former Soviet Bloc on the individual and on various groups of society from the aspect of socio-psychology. It focuses on the human dimensions of the transition beginning from the end of the eighties and on, micro-processes involved.

III. World Conference of Hungarian Architects

III. World Conference of Hungarian Architects
“Olympic games – tradition, crisis, solutions?”
5th of March 2010
Budapest, Institute of Italian Culture
(1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor Street 8. Hungary)

Alfréd Peschka, architect

Exhibition of Alfréd Peschka Ph.D.
Association of Hungarian Architects
(1088 Budapest, Ötpacsirta u. 2.)
23. 02. – 03. 10. 2010
Vernissage: 23. 02. 2010., 17.00

Dimensions and Moderation: A Perfect Model of Contextuality

Már a fél tucatot is meghaladja Reimholz Péter felépült házainak száma a Várnegyedben, illetve annak legszűkebb környékén, de fontos emlékeztetni rá, hogy nem egyszer feleségével, Csomay Zsófiával együtt tervezte őket. Gondoljunk saját lakóházukra, azután a Palaházra, a Hapimag üdülőházra, a Collegium Budapest Wallenberg vendégházára…

An Old New Acquaintance of Ours

A tervezőiroda feladata meglehetősen komplex volt, hiszen eltérő korok védett emlékeit kellett megtartaniuk ahhoz, hogy új épületek valósulhassanak meg a területen. Méretéből adódóan a legkarakteresebb elem a területen az U-alakú kétemeletes tégla iskolaépület, melyen a fiú- és leányiskolai szárnyak bejáratai a Bécsi út és Lajos utca felé nyíltak.

A House in Mérnök Street

A Budapesti Építészeti Nívódíjas SZÁMALK szigorú épület. Meghatározó tömege a hasáb, mondhatnánk, funkcionalista doboz, de ez már értékelés is lenne, mert a funkcionalitás ma kevés a dicsőséghez. Tény, hogy a ház nem él a divatos vagy bevált megoldások egyikével sem.

By Right of Beauty

Talán már nem is építészetként foghatjuk fel azt a nagyszabású feladatot, amit a kortárs építészet svájci sztárja, Bernard Tschumi nyert el a görög kulturális minisztériumtól: 2009 nyarán adták át az általa tervezett Új Akropolisz Múzeumot az athéni Parthenon lábánál.