The research project carried out now at the Department of Urbanistics in BME (Budapest Technical University) has set the goal to define the criteria of the integrated sustainability of the urban rehabilitation of Budapest. Sustainability is now a basic concept of urbanistics, architecture, technical sciences, society and economy, but the majority of the projects…
In the autumn of 2010 nobody may have thought that life would return once again to Kolontár and Devecser after the red sludge disaster. However, after nine months – which is an unbelievably short time – it seems so. Dwellers could move into the 21 rebuilt houses in Kolontár in June and into 87 new ones in Devecser at the end of July.
One of the most outstanding programmes of the Spring Architectural Festival in March was the Zero CO2 conference now organized for the fourth time. This was the forum where László Szekér, the head of Renewable Resources in the Artificial Environment for a Sustainable Future MÉSZ-UIA-ARES working team presented the highest passive house in Europe…
Being invited by ICOMOS Deutschland to the international conference organized in Berlin titled Jewish cemeteries and funeral culture in Europe (Jüdische Friedhöfe und Bestattungskultur in Europa) I presented the Israelite cemetery in Salgótarjáni Street on April 5th, 2011. I was amazed to see how many of the participants knew about it and were desperate…
The Earth Day Foundation assumed an amazing task when deciding to compile a basic work as a book titled Everyday Guide from the technical literature available in Hungarian language. Covering more than 400 pages, this publication presents in a systematic and logical order whatever anyone in Hungary could do for the sake of sustainability in this country in 2011.
Solar Decathlon is an international innovative competition of universities organized since 2002 by the US Ministry of Energetics and the Spanish government with the aim to develop, spread and popularize architectural and technical solutions related to the utilization of solar energy, sustainability, green technologies and the utilization of renewable energies…
The material of an already launched series of exhibition is being enriched now with photographs by Tamás Opitz. As usual, it is always an artist from the country presiding the EU who is invited to Belgrade. As Hungary was the EU president in the first half of the year 2011 now a Hungarian photographer received this invitation.
Flowing across Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade, the River Danube has been one of the most important trade routes of Europe for centuries. Situated by the mouth of the river Sava, Belgrade is an especially significant interregional junction. Since the proclamation of Yugoslavia in 1929 the town has had a new function…
Having established his philosophical-visionary engraving universe filtered with social criticism in the 1970s and 80s in the circles of Soviet paper architects strongly opposing the official Soviet architecture then, Alexander Brodsky turned to the expressive forms of installations and in about 2000 he also designed his very first genuine – constructable and useable – buildings.
László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) is a world-famous figure of twentieth-century avant-garde art. As a most versatile artist he had a radically experimental practice in the field of painting, sculpture, photography and film as well as commercial and industrial design and scenography. His visual art together with his theoretical and educational work…
A szegedi REÖK tárlata Hundertwasser ‘60-80-as évekből származó műveiből nyújt válogatást. A kiállított művek között litográfiák, rézkarcok, japán fametszetek, szitanyomatok, továbbá akvarell, kollázs illetve vegyes technikájú alkotások láthatók, melyeket porcelántárgyak, plakátok valamint bélyegsorozatok egészítenek ki.
2009 decemberében, a komplex 2. rajzolás véghajrájában felismertem, hogy a diplomát másképp szeretném csinálni. Egy pályázati felhíváson felbátorodva kerestem meg az ELTE Szociális Munka Tanszékét azzal az ötlettel, hogy a diplomatervem előkészületeként egy szegény faluban szeretnék társadalmi munkát végezni.