The LAKATLAN BUDAPEST FESTIVAL (Vacant Budapest Festival) is a cooperation between the KÉK Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Wonderland – Platform for European Architecture and the Vacant Central Europe project. The festival’s goal is to summarize current research on mapping and reusing vacant properties…
8th Architectural and Art Workshop
Sopron, 16. 06 – 22. 06. 2013
Organizers:
Institute of Applied Arts of the University of West Hungary
Worshopron Art College
Exhibition of the Hajdú-Bihar County Chamber of Architects
FUGA, Budapest, 29. 05 – 16. 06. 2013
Opening: 29 May 2013 – 6 p.m.
Opening speech by: Imre Bálint, president of the Budapest Chamber of Architects
It’s not just a workshop, but a festival as well to facilitate the dialogue on the development of the public spaces in Budapest under the program of ‘New visions in Víziváros’. Unfortunately public spaces in Hungary, especially in Budapest are many times in neglected condition. This workshop focuses on these problems, and intend to find…
Hello Wood is a multicultural-multidisciplinar art program. Our mostly known event is the one week creator camp held every summer, where well-known and recognized experts and artists share their knowledge with talented students. All work, produced by us is carrying two attributes: it’s mostly from wood and it’s characterized by an interplay…
Founded in 1953 and redefined in 1992, the Ybl Prize is the most prestigious architectural recognition in Hungary.
This year’s Ybl Prize has gone to:
Dr. Bálint Bachmann DLA, Dr. Marcel István Ferencz DLA, Ágnes Kravár, Csaba Molnár DLA, Béla Sisa.
In the category of preserving cultural heritage the minor Festetics castle of Alsóbogát has been awarded Europa Nostra prize. Csaba Nagyházi and his wife, the owners of an art gallery in Budapest bought the deteriorating castle in Alsóbogát in Somogy county which was then used for „the purposes of agriculture”. Their highly refined taste…
Adriana Priatková, Peter Pásztor
Lajos Oelschläger-Őry, Košice 2012
Lilly Dubowitz: In Search of a Forgotten Architect
Stefan Sebők 1901-1942, AA, London, 2012
Situated near Sopron, Raiding prides itself on being the birthplace of Ferenc Liszt. A few years ago a modern concert hall was built next to the museum housed in the building where the composer was born after plans by a team of Dutch architects. However, the summer music festival in itself will not stop the decrease of the population…
Since 2005 the tendency characteristic of the EU has also accelerated in Hungary: the inhabitants of minor settlements tend to give up on farming and move into towns and cities. However, many of the young urban people move on too from their home towns as there is not enough work. Simultaneously with this, provincial life is being more and more…
Liveliness is an essential constituent of tradition. Architectural tradition is a kind of the realizations of life and lifestyle in a certain place. However, it is not only a representation of it but also a follow-up. This dual nature features every single constituent of tradition. Vernacular architecture is also live and lively – just like a snail…
The new industrial unit and office hall of RATI is the very first industrial development in Hungary that needs no outer energy supply. What is even more, it is soon producing surplus energy. The owner of the company specialized in producing spare parts for car-bodies and the architects decided as soon as the idea occurred to them that…