Architecture and Identity in Yugoslavia 1904-1941
Dr. Aleksandar Ignjatović (Associate professor, University of Belgrade)
lecture in Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) Doctoral School for Architecture
24 April 2013 14.30, BME K210
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, the architect who led many of Mexico’s landmark Modernist construction projects of the mid-20th century, including museums, the country’s largest sports stadium and the shrine that attracts its most important religious pilgrimage, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday, in Mexico City.
Whether villa or house, the private residence has always been – and always will be – a touchstone in the oeuvre of every architect. We encounter it at the start of our studies and then later, in different situations and under different conditions demanding instant response, throughout our practising careers.
According to the International Day for Monuments and Sites the ICOMOS Hungarian National Committee, The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Pest County Government Offices and the Forster Gyula National Heritage Resources and Services Center organized a special meeting with the title Historical Preservation and its Social Opportunities during Crisis.
Programme of the Rural Development Society for Masters and Apprentices. It is a method accepted all over Europe to guarentee conditions for the preservation of protected vernacular buildings either in the context of (open-air) museums or in their own environment in line with their original functionality…
XIX. János Hild Urban Planning Conference
Change and Conformity in Urban Planning
Organized by the MUT Hungarian Society for Urban Planning
17-19 April 2013, Mosonmagyaróvár
The aim of the Prize of Landscape Architect of the Year is to recognize active professionals who made outstanding and innovative work lately (in the last 5 years). The prize can be given to one, or two, or a team of landscape architects, appointed by a jury appointed in advance. Prize of Landscape Architect of the Year…
Singularity University is a real think-tank of Silicon Valley, which organizes 10+ Global Impact Competitions around the world. Since 2012 the Central-European region is on this virtual SU global map with the annual SUCEE Global Impact Competitions. GIC 2013 Winners: Aleksandra Orchowska (Poland) and Marton Juhasz (Hungary).
Zalotay’s very first exhibition in Budapest was hosted by N&n Gallery in 2005. The material exhibited then is completed here: during the preparation of the exhibition a large number of documents, drawings and writings came up from the family legacy, archives and the master’s study unknown to us so far. This material is now being collected…
I would start out with a story: in Egypt, where uncle Elemér with black suntan is hanging around in the shadow of a pyramid. To protect against the burning heat he had put on some piece of clothes and also a sort of frothy shirt. He exactly looked like the natives of the site, there is no doubt. As he is just hanging around there…
The Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) organized a large-scale conference titled Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence. This ivent focusses ont he correlations of the critical approaches and practical methods created against the political and investment tendencies defining contemporary architecture and similar phenomena…
I would like to especially focus on a unique feature of Zalotay’s architecture. Possessing an extraordinary clarity, sense of purpose and toughness when phrasing the theory of his concept or projects its macrostructure, the inner correlations, Zalotay still creates the details of forms with a high degree of inner intuitiveness and expressivity.