Farkas Bethlen, the mayor of Verőce decided to have a church – bearing the name the Carpathian Motherland – built from pulic contributions with a wide scale collaboration and in voluntary work along the road to Katalin-puszta near the village in the Danube Bend, on a forested hill in the vicinity of Lósi Valley. Underneath the eaves along a whole ellipse…
In Ørestad, one of the most dynamically developed outer district of Copenhagen, a large number of buildings built recently by offices of innovative young Danish architects have received most prestigious professional awards. As a result of the latest developments, this district is accessible by the first tube system of the country…
The utilization of renewable energy resources is an integral part of sustainable energy supply in the future. The biomass heating plant completed in 2009 as part of the investment by the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma was designed in compliance with the local conditions and environmental potentials.
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.