In cities the size of Budapest, the issues of sustainability tend to be on the agenda more and more frequently. By the triple pillar of sustainable development we mean ecological, economic and social sustainability, the third category used primarily as a synonym for communal designing. The present research focusses on the facelifted…
Professionals elaborating architects’ training in Győr – Attila Bodrossy, Tamás Czigány and members of the generation joining them, András Cseh and Ádám Tátrai – regard it their mission to encourage their students to search for and find simple architectural answers free from attraction. If the adjective average was not a curse…
After the downfall of the Berlin Wall an inspiring field of research was offered to a whole generation of post-socialist landscape artists. While looking for surprising informal urban situations or worn visions of the future many have viewed the objects of socialism as purely aesthetic phenomena: removing them from their context…
In the Vienna-based Architekturzentrum the exhibition open till February was the very first attempt to present a comprehensive view of the architecture the non-Russian member states of the former Soviet Union created between 1950 and 1991. The research and the exhibition pushed into the background the perspectives formed by Russia…
Meet on the shore!
Eve Kiiler (EE) exhibition
FUGA, Budapest, 7 May – 5 June 2013
Opening: 7 May 2013 7 p.m.
Opening speech by Andri Ksenofontov, architect
The nationalist ideology of the Yugoslavian war did not only require human lives but also the destruction of buildings home to ethnic groups or religions. By restoring the mosques, churches and libraries also the identity of the groups of people belonging to these structures is reconstructed. The re-animation of the buildings…
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition entitled The Freedom of Sound – John Cage behind the Iron Curtain between 23 November, 2012 and 17 February, 2013. John Cage (1912-1992) was one of the major figures of avant-garde music…
He was best characterized in terms of peace and quiet, being untalkative, determined and radiating power. When it came to architectural forums or diploma sessions he was the one uttering his opinion and phrasing his ideas economically, limiting to a few words but expressing them unambiguously and irrefutably by others.
President’s Report
Association of Hungarian Architects
07. 05. 2012 – 06. 05. 2013
László György Sáros DLA
President of the Association of Hungarian Architects
Notions of space, vision and light run through the abstract art of the 20th century and interest many world renowned contemporary artists such as Ann Veronica Janssens, Anish Kapoor, John Armleder, Carsten Höller, Philippe Decrauzat, Jeppe Hein, Felice Varini and Xavier Veilhan. By putting vibration along with the spectator’s perception…
The Centre Pompidou brings together for the first time the work of one of the greatest painters of the second half of the 20th century, a master figure of abstraction: Simon Hantaï. Five years after the death of the artist, the Centre Pompidou dedicates an original exhibition to Hantaï’s work – the first in over thirty-five years.
Bigot Pavilion
Art Nouveau architectural ceramics from Paris
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest
26 April – 15 September 2013