The so-called architectural criticality was a subject of theoretical debates at the turn of the millennia, through which participants tried to redefine the confines of the architectural discipline and the role of architects amongst basic contemporary changes (economic, politic, social and technological). Debates were generated by members of the…
Greeting Ferenc Dávid on Behalf of his Colleagues in the Protection of Monuments. This text is an enlarged and edited version of a ceremonial address delivered on October 3rd, 2013 in FUGA to honour Ferenc Dávid, art historian on the occasion of handing over volumes of collected essays proving that belongingness and affinity of the profession…
In our collection of essays compiled to honour Ferenc Dávid art historian, we are publishing the results of research work done by 85 Hungarian and Austrian authors in special fields related to the specialties of the jubilant, namely archeology, architecture and art history. Besides case studies of architectural history, it also contains essays on topics…
Part and whole. A constituent of a building which is still an independent unit in itself. Their nicest variations blend with the facades, whilst their disproportionateness may ruin the overall impression of a building. Being subject to licensing, the regulations of shopwindows allow to survey the practices of portal constructions of decades…
“Design-build studio – New ways in architectural training” was the title of the symposium held in Berlin at the end of last year which made an increasingly powerful segment the international trend of architectural training palpable. The timeliness of this event lies in the fact that the past few years saw an increasing number of studies associated with…
The Frankfurt-based Weltkulturen Museum opened its anthropological collection for contemporary design and art, as well as a project area joining the museum building suited to host atelier programmes based on this collection. This initiative could not have been more suitingly scheduled as tribal culture and art has burst to surface with a rush in…
The topic of the new volume of the series ‘Image-philosophy’ of Typotex is architecture, art history. The building is Spain’s most visited tourist attraction, but according to the author’s concept the book prepares you to see Gaudí’s “vision of peace” as a pilgrimage. In fact, the volume interprets Gaudí’s concept and the Christian mysticism in contemporary…
Orsolya Bubryák started to work on the patronage of the Erdődy family in 2003. The brand new book on this topic presents the results of her research widen to the genealogy and the history of the Endrődy family. The dominant building is a renaissance-baroque Erdődy Castle built in 1720. The castle is built on the place of a pre-existing…
You shared with us countless memories spent in your school years in Debrecen. Yes, they were in the sixties, jeans, hopes, long hair, music, girls, also with the Prague Spring. You applied for the Univesity of Applied Arts, but it didn’t work out, so we met in Csongrad as the students of architecture. Around 1974 we realized that our vision could become…
Iván Bächer was a Hungarian writer, journalist, playwright and publicist. Bächer wrote as a critic for the Hungarian daily newspaper Népszabadság. He was not an architecture critic, although his writings were permeated by his thoughts on architecture, while he analyzed the relationship between housing and human. He also published…
Inside – outside. Exhibition of András Varsányi
FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture
16 January – 6 February 2014
Opening: 2014. január 16. 18:00
Opening speech by Uhl Gabriella
14th Architecture Biennale in Venice
Hungarian Pavilion
Presentations of the applicants
FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, 30 January 2014, 5 pm