Young designers starting their careers are supported by the Moholy-Nagy scholarship founded in 1988 to mature the most recent ideas of Hungarian design. It has been a tradition for years now that those granted this scholarship present their works at an exhibition in the Museum of Applied Arts. Some of the most exciting materials on display…
The Architecture of Common Sense
I gave my lecture of habilitation the title The Architecture of Common Sense. I have chosen it because it refers to architecture living in alternative versions undergoing continuous changes as well as to contemporary architecture systematically building itself from the knowledge and expertise of several millennia.
A Primary House
The location is found in the south of Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca): it is a small corner lot in the Bükk forest. Once a favourite destination of locals going for an excursion, it is a place where there had been nothing else but a few weekend houses, a camping site and the green forest itself. However, it has been developed rapidly by now to grow into a green-belt…
Two Exhibitions – Without Architecture
Under the Spell of Cézanne and Matisse – the Group of the Eight Centenary exhibition, Pécs 10. 12. 2010. – 27. 03. 2011.
XIX. Art and Nation: Image and Self-Image, Hungarian National Gallery, 05. 11. 2010. – 03. 03. 2011.
Art and Science
Designed as a symbolic gesture of welcome to guests from across the globe, the lotus-inspired ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands is the premier museum destination in Singapore for major international touring exhibitions from the most renowned collections in the world. Embracing a spectrum of influences from art & science, to media & technology…
Interior Design Exhibition
„Az emberi környezet tudatos formálója a belsőépítész” – állítja a FUGA, azaz a Budapesti Építészeti Központ manifesztumként/segélykiáltásként értékelhető kiállítási vezetője. A vezető első oldala nem áll meg az egymondatos megfogalmazásnál, hanem precíz meghatározást ad a belsőépítészet fogalmáról, illetve szinte munkaköri leírásként pontosítja…
Two Exhibitions in Mai Manó House
Gábor Kasza: Y
András Balla: Illatos kert
Hungarian House of Photography – Mai Manó House
01. 21. – 03. 20. 2011
Best Highrises 2010
On November 5, 2010 the international Highrise award was bestowed for the fourth time by the City of Frankfurt/Main in collaboration with DAM and DekaBank. This time “The Met”, a high-rise apartment building in Bangkok, Thailand, has won the prize, worth EUR 50,000, for the world’s most innovative high-rise. Extremely efficient both ecologically and in economic…
Islamic Art
Unger Ödön gyűjteménye a Manor-Houseban
Írta és összeállította: Martin József, Mundus Magyar Egyetemi Kiadó
Unger Ödön (1918-2010) egyike azoknak a londoni műgyűjtőknek, akik a Picadillyn létrehozták az Ázsia Házat, az európai és ázsiai kultúrákat összekötő intézményt.
Gyula Ernyey: From Mucha to Rubik
A szerény cím mögött alapmű rejtőzik: Ernyey Gyula a térség designtörténetével együtt megírta a 20. század rendszerváltásainak históriáját is. A Monarchiával együtt virágzó, majd abból kiváló közép-európai országok, a Baltikum, a délszláv térség és Románia kulturális hullámhegyeiről és -völgyeiről nem csupán rendkívül alapos, széles körültekintéssel…
eVolo
Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation on the public and private space…
Zero CO2 Sustainable Architecture Conference 2011
Zero CO2 Sustainable Architecture conference held on 4th March was organized by UIA (the International Union of Architects) in Budapest. Examples came true were presented.Projects presented among others: Unilever House, Hamburg; Power Tower, Linz; Green Home Offices, Budapest (LEED Platinum Pre-certified).