Practice-based Education

“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…

Communication of Globalising Tribes

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…

Armand Puig Tàrrech: Gaudí and the Sagrada Família

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: Genealogy and Representation

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…

In Memoriam Zoltán Horváth Figura

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…

In Memoriam Iván Bächer

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…

Urban Landscape No. 10.

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

Alteregos in the 21th Century

FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture
12 December 2013 – 20 January 2014
Curator of the exhibition: Szilvia Seres DLA
Exhibitors: György Klösz, László Lelkes, Zoltán Kerényi and the unkown photographers of the Fortepan photo collection

Creative Industries in Central Europe

Innocities program will be born on 23rd January 2014 at this conference, organised by CEURINA Nonprofit Association, owner of the innocities program and Open Doors Public Benefit Association. Innocities connects people to connect their experiences, ideas, power, braveness, connections to make our cities a better place to live and work in.

Design Act

The exhibition Design Act – Socially Reforming Design in Lajos Kassák’s Work presents a selection of the Kassák Museum’s collection from the aspect of critical design theories. As a critical tool, design uses the mechanisms, logic and activity of planning and engineering, while keeping social responsibility, sustainability and the interests…

Miklós Ybl Prize 2014 – Call for Entries

Founded in 1953 and reformed in 1992, Miklós Ybl Prize was awarded on occasion of the celebations on search 15th. It is the most prestigious architectural recognition in Hungary, which is awarded to professionals active in the construction and formation of the environment combined with the protection of values.