Although the new yachting club of ELMŰ is a small-scale building with simple functions, its designer saw maximal potentials in it. He could envision an object floating above the earth and sails evoking white cut-back surfaces, and his imagination fills up the sparing investment with beauty and refined reason. The airy character of the lower level associates the house…
By 1991, that is just over two decades now, when Eritrea was liberated, Tel Aviv had grown to be the largest united Modernist city of the world. And quite soon Asmara, the capital of the colony preserved in its intact form was rediscovered by Italian fascist Modernists. Nowadays attempts are made to save the realized utopia with a series of rehabilitation projects…
How can a conurbation have other functions than just being a commuter town to serve a city and create an urban image of its own? How can it benefit from its positional potentials so that its positive impact would remain powerful and felt even in several generations’ time? As an influential part of the conurbation of Budapest, Budaörs is in search of solutions to similar issues.
In 2008 Krisztina Csuport was the winner of a Goldfinger scholarship and thus attended a 12-month post-gradual training course specialized in energy-conscious environmental design. A student excelling at MOME, then the master course of Budapest Technical University Department of Public Building Design, she applied for the scholarship whilst working…
Kossuth Kiadó, 2010. 215 p
travelogues
architectural drawings
caricatures
poems
Vince Kiadó, 2010. 321 p
The book of Zoltán Bachman documents an era unveiling a period in the cultural history of the past fifty years in the field of architecture, education and culture.
The vision and creativity of György Kepes (1906-2001) and Frank Malina (19120-1981) are best characterized by the concept of universality expressed through experimentation in art, science, technology and radical innovation. The notions of interdisciplinary philosophy date back to a renaissance synthesis of knowledge drawing a long arc through art history.
A városvédő civilek 1982 óta minden évben Podmaniczky-díjjal jutalmazzák azokat, akik foglalkozásuktól, munkahelyi kötelezettségüktől függetlenül, vagy azt jelentősen túlteljesítve a legtöbbet tették épített és természeti környezetünk, kulturális örökségünk értékeinek védelmében. Az idén 28. alkalommal került sor a díjátadóra.
For years “reconstruction” has been the subject of a heated debate. However, reconstructions can be found since Antiquity, as throughout history buildings have been destroyed and rebuilt if required, for a variety of reasons and with alternating perceptions and definitions of “reconstruction”. The exhibition is presenting and analysing the various motives in favour of reconstructing lost buildings.
The V&A commissioned a group of international architects to build a series of structures throughout the Museum which responded to the theme of the ‘retreat’. The starting point for these experimental projects was the idea of a small enclosed space representing an escape from the chaos of urban life to an area for peace, contemplation, shelter or creativity.
In May it opened in Pécs, Hungary. Further stops:
Budapest (July);
Fellbach, Germany (September/October),
Berlin (January 2011),
Brussels (March 2011).
“Architektur im Ringturm” – a series of exhibitions hosted by the Vienna Insurance Group – continues its architectural journey of exploration through Central and Eastern Europe by taking a look at Albania. The exhibition and catalogue focus on planning, building and living in Tirana, the capital city of a country that lies where the Adriatic meets the Mediterranean.