The Development of the Surroundings of the Pilgrims’ Church, Máriapócs Architects: Ferenc Salamin, Pál Salamin Text: Bálint Botzheim Photos: György Dénes, Bálint Botzheim The situation after getting rid of the Turkish rule made it possible to create the iconostasis presenting God’s Mother, the Virgin Mary in a tiny village in the Nyírség region which was […]
Reptár – the museum of military aircrafts, Szolnok Architects: Béla Keresztes, Róbert Sós Text: Miklós Okrutay Photos: Áron Lality It was a practical and self-evident opportunity for the city of Szolnok to found a museum of military aircrafts which is a worthwhile collection to European standards. The military airport still in operation today – at […]
National Museum’s Dialogue Centre, Szczecin Architect: Robert Konieczny Text: Edit Pálinkás Photos: Jakub Certowicz, Juliusz Sokołowski, Jarosław Syrek For years, the Solidarności Square had been a square by name only – with vague borders, open frontages, burdensome busy street neighborhood and the absence of a defined function, despite the dominating one – to commemorate the […]
FUGA, Budapest, 9 May 2017 Presentation of the HÁZ + MESTEREK portrait film series made by the cooperation of the MOME Institute of Architecture and the Association of Hungarian Architects. The roundtable discussion with the architects, of whom the portrait films about was moderated by Krizstina Somogyi visual intelligence researcher.
On Hungarian church architecture with Ferenc Török, aged 80 Interview: Zorán Vukoszávlyev, Gréta Garai Photos: Zorán Vukoszávlyev The opening of the oeuvre exhibition of Ferenc Török held in Vigadó in 2016 was a genuinely emotional experience of his childhood memories, drawings, models, friends, students, fellow architects, and formative characters of churches. Ferenc Török, a designer […]
Definition of the Memory. Symbols of Socialist Realism, OSA, Centralis Gallery, Budapest, 02. 02. – 19. 03. 2017 Text: Sándor Hornyik Photos: Dániel Végel / Blinken OSA Archívum The exhibition titled Symbols of Socialist Art című in the Budapest gallery of Open Society Archive interprets the visual paradigms of the era in a critical way […]
Conference at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 3 December 2016 Text: Iván Vitányi In the middle of the last century there seemed to be a new unique opportunity opening up for mankind. We felt there is a good chance for us to achieve welfare societies, well-being and democracy at the same time. Society was layered […]
Complex Designing Approaches Text: Katalin Fazekas By the definition of Public Interest Design Institute, which was founded by the American Bryan Bell, social architecture is a humanistic is a participative practice of design which stresses the importance of ecological, economic and social issues, and also creates products, structures and systems that touch upon such problems […]
Fablabs and Fab10 Festival, Barcelona Text: Bálint Botzheim The history of the movement named fablab started in MIT Center for Bits and Atom laboratory which was founded in 2001. Its founder and manager is Professor Neil GershenFeld, and the slogan of the movement is as follows: „Give ordinary people the appropriate tools and they shall […]
Text: István Schneller Every theory engaged in sacred architecture, as well as practical considerations have the same basic question: the possibilities of the representation of the sacred in arts. Architecture has a unique position in this respect as the question is even more significant when a church is to be built. Is this representation viable […]
A bit of survey, Budapest, 2016 Text: Gábor Nagy It is the sixth year in a row that the volume titled Egy kis mustra is published by the Government Office of Pest County to present reconstruction projects of protected historic buildings of the previous year. At the book show architect Gábor Nagy, a supervisor of […]
Auditorium, Riga Concept and text: Péter Magyar The design was made for an international tender published to invite concepts for auditoriums in Riga as well as for minor structures associated with them, preferably by connecting and complementing the two existing exhibition halls. Shaped ideally as far as acoustics are concerned, the four auditoriums grew out […]