The reconstruction of the main building housing the Faculty of Arts of Loránd Eötvös University Tudományegyetem in Múzeum Boulevard has just been completed. Its facades facing the boulevard and Trefort Garden are graced by coloured brick and glazed ceramics almost invisible before the facelift.
Frigyes Kőnig’s interests are – simplified – representations of space, quasi-historical, archaic and reproductive representation, plastic representations of people. He explores basic visual problems, such as vision, proportions, different perspectives and how they alter what we see, in his works that are still autonym, and aesthetically valuable.
Sitting on a lot with exceptional faculties and a panoramic view, there are three edifices here: a main structure with a garage on the southern confines and an auxiliary building of also residential function along the northern one. Erected in the 1930s, the main building is a single-storey structure with a T-shaped design evokes Romantic atmosphere.
Nowadays it is a sort of commonplace to refer to Switzerland as a great power in architecture even outside the world of professionals in the narrow sense. Many architects and designers of international fame, excellent schools of architecture, the relative abundance of money and fastidiousness (that of design, execution and clients) probably owing to the beauties of its natural environment…
Supporting newly started minor enterprises by providing them rooms to rent, an incubator house relies upon the rich infrastructure of the location. Hidden behind the label „industrial park”, the idea of high standards illustrates the intended directions of development as opposed to the heterogenuos uncertainty of native reality in Hungary.
Dubravka Dukanović:
Serbian Ortodox Churches
of the 18th and the 19th Centuries in Bačka
Based in Cluj Napoca, this periodical offers wide horizons in its subtitle: Forum – Culture – Science. Its almost exclusively topic-related issue includes a valuable selection of writings on civic design and urbanistics. The theoretical reasoning is followed by analyses concerning us more directly.
Sit in China
An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting
Art for the Millions
100 Sculptures from the Mao Era
Tamás Czigány
University of Pécs (PTE) Faculty of Engineering (PMMK)
Architecture Studio
Pécs, Rókus u. 2.
10. 05. 2010. 18:00
The first retrospective ever to be held about the most celebrated cabinetmaker of all time. Within a contextual presentation bringing together his works with highly important paintings, tapestries, bronzes and mounted porcelain, a captivating portrayal of the birth and flowering of a completely new aesthetical universe, which was to become the European model for centuries to come.
Az ezredforduló informatikai technológiai fejlődése és a párhuzamos kulturális változások, a látvány társadalom térnyerése az a két ok, amely ma ismét felveti az építészet anyagtalanságának vagy épp anyagszerűségének, tárgyszerűségének kérdését. Az épület, mint tárgy a harmincas évek funkcionalizmusa után ma ismét válságban van…
A szerzők az első magyar kötet bevezetőjében hangsúlyozzák, hogy nyitott tárgyalásmódra: az építészeti gondolkodás fontos csomópontjainak kijelölésére, s rétegzettségének bemutatására törekednek. Az olvasót tájékoztatni, vezetni szeretnék, s egyben részvételre, öntevékenységre buzdítják.