Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is recognized today as one of the masters of modern architecture and the most influential Finnish architect worldwide. The exhibition highlights four one-family houses that form a varied and fascinating entity in Aalto’s extensive output. The buildings presented in the exhibition include The Aalto House, Villa Mairea, Muuratsalo Experimental House and Maison Luis Carré.
The Royal Institute of British Architects in the United Kingdom (RIBA) is calling for applications to the RIBA Goldfinger Scholarship. In 2010 the Scholarship offers a grant of £14,000 to a Hungarian graduate to undertake postgraduate study or a period of professional experience in the UK. The Scholarship has been offered since 1999 and is enabled through a generous donation by the family of the late architect Ernö Goldfinger.
Conference and sailing competition
4-6. June 2010.
Balatonlelle, Hungary, BL Yacht Club
(8638 Balatonlelle, Köztársaság street 36-38., Hungary)
István Orosz
Poster exhibition
Gödöllő, GIM-House
24. 04. – 06. 06. 2010.
Exhibition of Archikon Architect Studio
Vernissage: 26. 05. 2010. 18:00
N&n Gallery
Budapest, Hajós u. 39.
Exhibition on Pollack Mihály Square,
Budapest
10-31. 05. 2010.
Architect Imre Makovecz received an honorary doctorate from Rome’s La Sapienza university in January. Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi lauded Makovecz in a speech that addressed the past and present of Hungarian architecture and Hungarian history.
The architect Mihály Vargha Dipl.eng. was definitely a leading figure in the Hungarian architectural media, a member of several design boards and councils, and of the Association of Hungarian Architects. He was one of the founders of Építészfórum (The Hungarian Architectural Forum). Before starting up that portal he was Editor-in-Chief of Hungarian Architecture.
III. World Conference of Hungarian Architects
“Olympic games – tradition, crisis, solutions?”
5th of March 2010
Budapest, Institute of Italian Culture
(1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor Street 8. Hungary)
The Association of Hungarian Architects (MÉSZ) was invited to organize an architectural festival by the Hungarian Institute in Paris with events such as an international conference of architects, Hungarian historic and contemporary architectural exhibitions, outdoor shows, joint programmes for French and Hungarian students as well as creative weeks.
On Friday we may have visited the most expensive elementary school ever built with Csaba Valkai and János Dobai, the designer of the house. We arrived in and against penetrating wind in this out-of-reach location: it is beyond family houses competing with pub beauties but still on this side of the nearby motorway.
From the ten-storey prefab houses one can have a full view of the single-storey U-shaped building of the surgery building. In 2007 the local authority decided it was time to have it reconstructed and updated. Launched as a reconstruction, the project evolved into a complete remodelling.