People behind – Human stories

Budapest Architecture Film Days 2024 Text: Mária Tatai This year, the Contemporary Architecture Centre’s film festival was organised by a team of designers with new members. I translated the catchy English slogan — People behind — in the title of the article as Human Stories, partly because in the last film of the festival, Balkrishna […]

Origo and Meridian

Architectural Additives of the Tycho Project Text: Alexander Gyeres Collecting materials for his Tycho Project, Alexander Gyenes has visited several European observatories from the Early Modern era. Some of the most remarkable solar observatories, in the form of functionalized meridian lines, were housed in cathedrals. The Tycho Project represents his attempt at creating a surface […]

Considering Progress

Modernity and the Search for Tradition in Károly Weichinger’s Realized Buildings and Later Writings Text: Márk Váncza Károly Weichinger (1893-1982), Kossuth Prize-winning architect, is a recognised figure of 20th-century Hungarian architecture. His design work, dating from the interwar era, is characterised by a balancing act between Modernism and Historicism. His work is accompanied by a […]

Vernacular architecture: from Tradition to the Future

2nd International Conference of the VEAB Working Committee on Vernacular Architecture Text: Dénes Nagy The VEAB Working Committee on Folk Architecture was founded in 2011. The Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA) established Regional Academic Committees in Debrecen, Miskolc, Pécs, Szeged and Veszprém, and then expanded them to include Cluj-Napoca. Shortly after its creation, in 2012, […]

Only from Clean Sources?

The Limits of Architecture and Use of Space in Szekler Baths Text: Sarolta Rab The mountain spas of Transylvania, just like other prominent natural environments of Central-Eastern Europe, were built and became widely known in the civilizing 19th century. Although in a dilapidated state, their architectural heritage of the time, the promenades, pavilions, villas and […]

The Architects’ Place — The Space of Architecture

György Szegő conversing with Attila Turi, Architect and President of MMA Attila Turi, as the new president of MMA (the Hungarian Academy of Arts) and an architect, gave an interview to Hungarian Architecture informing our readers on three issues. Firstly, he spoke about the responsibility of the Hungarian Academy of Arts to recognise and implement […]

Iván Kotsis Award 2023: Tamás László Vincze DLA

This recognition awarded by the Association of Hungarian Architects is a „fair-play prize” of professionals symbolizing the approach authenticated also by the oeuvre of the denominator with his pursue of his vocation with the modesty of an architect based on ethics. Besides, it is also an appreciation of high-standard education. At the awards ceremony held […]

Silver Carpenter’s Pencil Award 2023

The Silver Carpenter’s Pencil Award was founded in 2010 by the Foundation for the Hungarian Arts, at the initiative of architects Attila Komjáthy and his wife, Ilona Komjáthyné Kremnicsán. The recognition makes the press work for Hungarian architecture visible to the general public. It is awarded for quality journalistic activity appearing in printed or electronic […]

Hungarian Architecture Museum and Centre

On 11th December 2023, the results of the competition for the designs of the Hungarian Architecture Centre and Museum were announced at the MMA Headquarters, that is Pesti Vigadó. In June 2023, the MMA secretariat announced a two-phase design competition for the Hungarian Architecture Centre and Museum, planned for Városligeti fasor, next to Walter Rózsi […]

Perspective Vision

Expansion of the Faculty of General Medicine, Pécs Architect: Mihály Kádár Text: Marcell Szuhanyik Photos: Zsolt Hlinka The vision for the expansion of the Faculty of General Medicine of the University of Pécs, which began with the construction of a new, modern wing, goes far beyond the boundaries of the complex itself. In fact, it […]