The Fate of a Housing Estate No. 2

Careful Reflections in the 21st Century Neu Olvenstedt Housing Estate, Magdeburg, Germany 1980–1989 Text: Melinda Benkő Neu („New”) Olvenstedt housing estate was built on the north-western outskirts of Magdeburg in the late 1980s as an experimental project which broke away from the Modernist development typical of prefab housing estates: its East German and Soviet designers […]

Architecture to Develop Communities in Need

Building Design Strategies to Facilitate Social Integration Apropos of International Examples Text: Tibor Tánczos More and more people realize that helping those who live on the margins of society is not only a question of ethics and virtue today. As the social and political burden of massive impoverishment, indebtedness and the loss of homes is […]

Vienna–Berlin

The Art of Two Metropolises from Schiele to Grosz, Vienna, Belvedere, 2014 Spring Text: György Szegő After 1945 Paris launched a series of comparative exhibitions of painters from New York which is continued by the 2007 Wien–Paris exhibition of the Belvedere. This time it was an act of free will, as by now the first […]

Hollein Memorial Exhibition

MAK, Vienna, 24 June – 5 October 2014 Text: György Szegő Photos: MAK So far, Hans Hollein is the sole Austrian architect who has been awarded the Pritzker Prize. Besides, he was also a designer, an autonomous artist, a curator, a researcher of the future, a culture anthropologist and a teacher. A genuine polyhistor, whose […]

Community House in Újpalota

The aim of the competition is to find the most suitable design for the new Community House and its surrundings in the Main Square of Újpalota housing estate in Budapest. Deadline: 8 September 2014 Information: mek.hu

PIXEL-CONCRETE competition

According to the 1st National Salon of Architecture in the Műcsarnok (Budapest) pixel-concrete pavilion was built on the stairs of the museum’s entrance. At daylight the shadows from its interior gives a special effect for the pavilion, but at night it is illuminated by projected animations from inside. The museum invites applications to fill the […]

ÉME Master School admission contest

ÉME Master School XXIII. (2014-2016) admission contest For young, graduated architects the ÉME Master School provides opportunity to widen their professional practice and theoretical knowledge in a two-year postgraduate training. Design program: Music School, Érd, Museum promenade Deadline: 18 August 2014 Information: mek.hu