The winners of the 2013 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards were unveiled by the European Commission and Europa Nostra. The 30 winners are honoured for their achievements in four areas: conservation, research, dedicated service, and education, training and awareness-raising.
The Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ) invites you to the exhibition Ybl Prize 2013
MÉSZ Kós Károly Hall
2th April – 12th April 2013
The Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ) and the Architectural Photographers Open Society invite you to the exhibition
Opitz Tomas: Urban details
MÉSZ Kós Károly Hall
26th March – 5th April 2013
Toyo Ito, a 71 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Tokyo, Japan, will be the recipient of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which was founded in 1979 by the late Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy, is to honor annually a living architect whose built work…
Social housing
György Alföldi DLA (Department of Urban Studies)
József Hegedüs PhD (Városkutatás Kft.)
András Szekér (Habitat Hungary Kft.)
FUGA, Budapest 28th March 2013, 6 p.m.
Ybl Prize 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. Ybl Prize winners: Bálint Bachmann DLA, Marcel Ferencz DLA, Ágnes Kravár, Csaba Molnár, Béla Sisa
For a long time the most popular communication tool is the photography. It is almost our partner. We live with it every day. But in addition to our “loved ones” we have to face with thousands of photos flowing us in chaotic mass. It is understandable that – perhaps because of self-defence, or like the instincts of a drowning man…
“In those many relations between photography and architecture, the photographer’s attention mainly concentrate to the light, the shadow and the structure. In architecture the form and structure becomes significant – like in photography – by the light. No surprise then, when the camera itself makes the expression of the built world”
I received the question many times as a photographer, that the pictures I take are three-dimensional computer models, or they are actually photos. Usually I try to make it clear that my works are photos. In many cases, however, the photographers are expected to reach a computer graphic purity, nothing left in the picture is real…
Looking at László Francsics’s photos creates the feeling, when a movie stops, but we can move on as the main character of the story. It is possible to take a closer look, we all go around the houses and objects, peek behind the curtains to see into our forgotten memories, our past. Through photographs we are clearly able to learn…
Márk Péter Vargha
Architectural photo of the Year 2012 – 1st Prize
Photos, videos, muliple exposure simulations
Photos of the working process
Architectural Photography Competition 2012
Organized by the Association of Hungarian Architects, Chamber of Hungarian Architects, Architectural Photographers Open Society
Prize of the Association of Hungarian Architects: László Francsics
Prize of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects: Márk Péter Vargha