It is often the case that our perception of contemporary architecture is not based on impressions that we obtain on site; instead, they are mediated by images. In a society which, as a result of the “iconic turn”, is influenced more by images than by text, photography takes on decisive significance, also in the mediation of architecture.
Peter Puklus is an example of a modern documentary author. Questions of an involved or not involved view, an approach based on revealing beauty, or rather importance of daily, even banal things – all that was solved by documentary photographers before. The generation of Puklus and his peers can now focus on the complexity of documentary work.
Kunsthaus Wien is devoting a major retrospective to the oeuvre of the 89-year-old photographer and painter Saul Leiter. The exhibition, which was developed in cooperation with Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen Hamburg, presents the wide range of this versatile artist’s works, including early black-and-white and colour photographs…
Generative Archtiecture Conference
FUGA, Budapest 19th March 2013 14.00
Lectures: Bálint Botzheim, Anna Baróthy, Péter Dóczé, Dániel Erdély, Lídia Felföldi, Levente Gyulai, Barna Kovács D., Tamás Lévai, Ákos Maróy and the authors of the Performance-Driven Architecture exhibition…
Debut exhibition of the Trafik Contemporary Art Association
FUGA, Budapest
29. 03. – 24. 04. 2013
Opening salute by István Ligetvári, president of the association
Opening speech by Gábor Farkas DLA, Chief architect of Dabas
Scientific research about computer-aided design
FUGA, Budapest
14. 03. – 05. 04. 2013
Curators: Krassimir Krastev, Alexander Kalachev
Opening speech by Krassimir Krastev, architect
Young architects’ experiences in international internship programs
FUGA, Budapest
12-31 March 2013
Organized by ÉK Association
Kós Károly Prize was founded to recognize excellent achievements of individuals and communities protecting local architectural heritage and preserving architectural traditions. Every year it is awarded on or about December 16th, the birthday of a creator using motifs of Transylvanian folk art and historic Hungarian architectural monuments.
On December 7th 2012 this year’s Prima Primissima Prizes were handed over in the Palace of Arts (Művészetek Palotája), Budapest. The prize founded by Sándor Demján went to Péter Török landscape designer in the category „Architecture and Architectural Art”, whilst architects Balázs Balogh and Antal Lázár were awarded the Prima Award…
The rough-cool world of the house ends in a genuine concrete roofing. The interior is airy and light, which is a consequent follow-up continuation of the approach to space the tandem of designers presented in their award-winning arcaded house on plinth in Balatonakarattya: with a frame of many components, the structure is material-wise…
On a corner site in Józsefváros a new day nursery was built to replace the former single-floor kindergarten. Flanked by 12-17 m partition walls the new two-storey structure is only 3-9 m tall. The basic situation is a result of the dramatic tension between the faculties of the site and the design programme: the latter only justified a development…
Inaugurated in 1969 the children’s camp in the oak-forest in Zánka offered its capacity of 3,000 in summer and 6,000 in winter. The central building of the Pioneers’ Town of Zánka receives visitors with a large ground-floor pie. This single-floor mass houses catering, the library, an exhibition room, the hairdresser’s and offices.