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
Photography is a special act of life in which one’s all energy is concentrated to the observation. The environment almost disappears. “Only the subject and myself.” There’s no bridge of events between us. Tense silence waiting for the perfect moment with the most intense state of mind, but the tool which is assigned to…
On the occasion of the Month of Photography the FUGA Radio launched a photo contest for every enthusiastic (amateur and professional) photographers who like to take pictures of buildings. The announcers waited for photos of buildings or groups of buildings, which are important for the photography lovers, exciting…
According to the Month of Photography 2012 informal professional roundtable discussion was held about architectural photography in the new cultural venue, the “Kultúrmosoda” (Patyolat//PRÓBAüzem) in the Baross Street. The site itself is also exciting, in many ways: the former laudry building, the redevelopment of the surroundings, the box jungle…
The very first architectural photo competition of the Department of Architecture of the University of Debrecen was held in 2011. The topic of the competition was ‘Light and architecture’. Next year, in 2012 the topic was ‘Abandoned places’. The aim of the competition was to let the students discover and get aquinted with those architectural…
The architecture of Todd Saunders relates explicitly to landscape, from Norway’s dense forests and steep-sided fjords to the boulder-strewn coastline of Newfoundland. Saunders associated architecture wuth the art of creating place. His studio explores hte role that form and texture play in the perception of space…