National Style in Europe Text: Ilona Sármány-Parsons The attempts made by Ödön Lechner to create a genuinely Hungarian architectural style has been the topic of heated theoretical debates for over a century now. It encourages each generation to try to realize Lechner’s dream from time to time, but in turn, these efforts tend to generate […]

Organic Architecture Today Text: László Kuli After the death of Imre Makovecz, it seemed necessary to survey and assess to what extent his oeuvre influenced contemporary Hungarian architecture, where his influence is traceable, and which individual buildings may be associated with the organic concept. Apropos of this, many architects are mentioned who may not have […]

Pragmatic Modernism – In-Between Avantgarde and Mainstream Text: Matthias Boeckl The „architecture of the Hagenbund” represents a field of activities on the margins of avantgarde and beyond which regularly supplied standard architecture with the essences of Modernist ideas. AS it was widely accepted it used to have more significant influence that the spectacular expressions of […]

The Charm of the “Other Modernism” Text: Éva Bajkay The central museum of Austrian art, the Belvedere devoted an exhibition of new perspectives at the end of to the association of artists named after Josef Hagen innkeeper, the short name of which is Hagenbund. It was not the works of the members but the network […]