Located 350 km from Lisbon, Guimarães has been hardly known in modern-day Europe so far. In 2012 this town was a European Cultural capital besides Maribor. From an architectural aspect the most exciting intervention was its Casa da Memoria, the House of Memory – which has been converted from the former Pátria factory.
The masas formation of the house was seemingly limited by the regulations of development: actually they catalyzed the process of thinking which aimed at the formal appearance very simple and stripped anyway. We can see now a single-storey longish mass positioned northeast-northwest topped with a simple pitched roof with inclination typical of the…
The most frequented museum in the world, the Paris-based Louvre opened this September its 3000 m2 new wing devoted to Islamic art. The Islam Wing reveals an extraordinary formal-structural solution: projectint toward the River Seine the so-called Visconti-court is occupied by a two-storey pavillion with a spectacular glass roofing, the shape of which evokes a veil…
In the opening lecture of the conference Melinda Benkő gave an insight into the activities of the Dept. of Urbanistics at the Budapest Technical University. György Alföldi informed about a book recently published by the department in his lecture titled Budapest 2050: what a city should not be like in 2050? An important issue of the future is whether the physical fabric…
In the spring of 2012 Xella published an international tender of several rounds for Czech, Hungarian, Austrian, Slovak and Slovenian architects inviting them to design detached family houses for Blaue Lagune, a condominium near Vienna presenting ready-houses with „almost zero energy consumption” by using Ytong–Silka–Multipor products.
Adorján Portik architect-interior designer and his team developed and patented Free Form Buildings, a new construction method in 2009 to facilitate energy-efficiency and the preservation of the intact environment through the whole life-cycle of the building. As a result of the new technology the buildings adjusted to the modern technologies…
Submitted by the students of BME (Budapest Technical University) for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 in Madrid, the designs of the Odoo House made great success now: considering the joint assessed results of the 10 events it was rated the 6th best, and came second in two categories. Almost 60 students worked in the project representing almost each…
On October 18th the Swiss Architectural Museum based in Basel offered leeway for an international movement looking for a way out for three days. During this time a window was opened from the representative rooms of the Kunsthalle into a reality yet to take shape. The exhibition was prepared by the Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst which presented…
In the interwar period the central power supported the character, the supposed spirituality and the architectural equivalent of the „Yugoslavian ancient race” with neo-Byzantine motifs. Massive monuments, quasi-Byzantine public buildings were erected in the age of the Bauhaus. However, in practice the western and central part of the county…
The historicizing-Art Nouveau style complex of the Gas Works in Óbuda was built in 1910-13 after designs by Károly Reichl and Albert Weisz. The single surviving building of the complex with its preserved chimney is made up of two parts of different technology of construction. The single-floor section derives from the original construction phase of the gas works…
The overall impression that I have of the diploma design – descriptions and illustrations, design pages and the computer-generated model – is a fine one. It was great pleasure for me that the applicant presented hand-drawn drawings revealing his personality and sketches expressively emphasizing the basics of the logic governing his designing process showing…
György Fekete exhibition
Museum of Applied Arts
Budapest
28th September – 4th November 2012