Refined Adjustment

Winning the nationwide contest for the reconstruction of protected historical monuments in Timișoara must have been an exceptional challenge for the Archaeus team of architects managed by Marius Miclăuş as Theresa Bastion built between 1736 and 1738 is the only A category monument of the town and the last one to survive…

Decadence – Aspects of Austrian Symbolism

In summer 2013, the Belvedere will be the first museum to highlight the multifaceted positions of Austrian Symbolism in a large-scale exhibition. An in-depth exploration of this significant movement in Austrian art around 1900, which has hitherto almost exclusively been addressed in partial aspects, is long overdue. As a first step, the exhibition…

Uninhabitable Objects

With “Uninhabitable Objects” a topic is being analysed at the Bündner Kunstmuseum, which is of general social relevance. The dwelling – no matter how rudimentary – is of existential significance for human beings. This exhibition is about the subjective-imaginative debate on space and living concepts: “When is something inhabitable?”

The Legend of VÁTI

Gábor Aczél – János Csontos – Tamás Lukovich: Volt egyszer egy VÁTI
Pro Régió Ügynökség, 2013
88 page
Book presentation by Eszter Götz
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Architecture, Identity, Balaton

The committed and pragmatic approach of architects pressed by conditions is a leitmotif in the architectural history of the shores of Lake Balaton that also permeated the experimental forms of waterfront buildings as a rule. This study surveys who and how reflected about the architectural tasks of the Balaton region as well as about the regional…

Ne mutlu Türküm diyene

Of the civilisation of Turkey we typically – and of its architecture almost exclusively -know of the Osmanli, the era of which ended with the peace treaty of Sévres in 1920 after World War I. This also meant a „tabula rasa re-start for the whole nation”. This is when the Modern Age history of Turkey began, starring Mustafa Kemal who – on the ruins of…

General Survey, with Many Question Marks

Hungarian architecture has had its hedge-hopping for several years now. We tried to find the out what the reasons for this are with the intention to straighten it out in a discussion with four architects on some current and rarely discussed issues of practicing the profession, regulations, education and the social prestige of architecture.

Two Cities, Two Schools

During the past two years I taught the fifth Master of Architecture course at the Faculty of Architecture of Kansas State University and following the examples set by some of my fellow lecturers I also prolonged the compulsory six months spent abroad in the fourth year even though only with a one-week stay. First I travelled to Denmark…

In-Between Surrealism and the Architecture of Folding

After the one in 1976 Centre Pompidou once again welcomes visitors to a retrospective exhibition of Hantaï Simon open from May to September this summer. A total of 130 paintings by the artist are on show now proving that he was an outstanding figure of 20th-century European painting who had gone his own way whilst painting and hiding in Paris…

Hungarian Design Award 2013

Hungarian Design Award 2013 Winners:
Hungarian Design Award – Product category: 
DSI Inhalo
, 
Petra Földi 2012/13 raincoat collection, Design category: Faces game, Visual communication category: A kiskakas gyémánt félkrajcárja, Student category: Light Me lamps, DORA helmet

Light//Structures

Exhibition of Anikó Robitz and Márk Péter Vargha
FUGA Budapest Centre of Architecture, 4-29 October 2013
Opening: 4 October 2013, 6 p.m.
Opening speech by Vilmos Katona architect
Finissage: 28 October 2013 – “Gallery Forum”