London Metropolitan University, November 15th-17th, 2012

Text: Péter Haba

Szalagház, részlet, 1960-as évek eleje, Reprodukció: Hajdú József

The Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) organized a large-scale conference titled Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence. This ivent focusses ont he correlations of the critical approaches and practical methods created against the political and investment tendencies defining contemporary architecture and similar phenomena of the 20th century, especially with regard to the professional resistance typical of the countries of the former Eastern Block and „different way of thinking”. Based on their joint research, Mariann Simon, associate professor with BME (Budapest Technical University, lecturer ofthe Department of Architectural History and Historic Monuments and Péter Haba doctoral candidate presented the ribbon-house concept that architect Elemér Zalotay elaborated from 1958 on at the conference.