Architectural photo – copy of the world?

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…

Abandoned places

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…

Harmony and respect

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…

Photo-architecture

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.

Péter Puklus

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.

Saul Leiter

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 Architecture

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…

Almost nothing…

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

Performance-Driven Architecture

Scientific research about computer-aided design
FUGA, Budapest
14. 03. – 05. 04. 2013
Curators: Krassimir Krastev, Alexander Kalachev
Opening speech by Krassimir Krastev, architect

Outlook 2012

Young architects’ experiences in international internship programs

FUGA, Budapest
12-31 March 2013
Organized by ÉK Association

Kós Károly Prize 2012

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.

Prima Primissima Prize 2012

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…