Text: Balázs Rose The Valparaíso School, as it became known, acquired an international reputation for its radical stance and its commitment to dialogue between architects and other disciplines. Since 1970 the Valparaíso School has focused much of its research and design activity on the Open City (Ciudad Abierta) project, created by a group of architects, […]
Viktor Bőhm’s Architecture Text: Éva Lovra An ongoing research project is focussing on finding out the details and career of Viktor Bőhm, Modernist architect and theoretician (Victor Bohm, Miskolc, 1900 – Rockaway, New Jersey(?), 1981). This study is the introduction to the research work, and summarizes in outlines all the milestones of his career from […]
The Dialogue Between the Prince, the Architect and the Philosopher Text: Ferenc Hörcher The discourse tells us the legend of ever growing cities. But are small and medum-size towns sentenced actually to death by development which is supposed to be determined historically? In the article below I am trying to phrase the praise of small […]
Text: Kornél Almássy Recently, the Hungarian Government has declared the architectural development of the future site of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and the Monument Protection Documentation Centre to be an investment of special public interest. This is a big enough change compared to the fact that many people have previously talked about a barely […]
A selection of the early sources in the collection of MÉM-MDK on protected buildings and monuments Text: Zsófia Kádár, Gergely Kovács After almost 50 years, the collection of the office for protected buildings had to be moved out from No, 1. Táncsics Mihály Street, which was rebuilt in 1971 to function as the headquarters […]
Annual Conference of the Hungarian Urbanistics Society, 2020 Text: Zsófia Szarka, Julianna Szabó The 26th national annual conference of the Hungarian Urbanistics Society was held online in the middle of November. The first two days were opened with lectures on the current pandemic situation, firstly by Roger Keil, professor of the Toronto York University, […]
A Volume of Book and Conferences, October 2020 Text: Ágnes Herczeg The workshops are organised with regard to the issues of garden and landscape design that we find interesting and remarkable. The series of events held in FUGA were organised by the Historical Gardens section of ICOMOS MNB and the Garden Design and Art Institute […]
Historic exhibition instead of Venice Biennale La Biennale di Venezia, to mark the 125th anniversary of its foundation, presents Le muse inquiete (The Disquieted Muses). When La Biennale di Venezia Meets History, an exhibition by the Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts – ASAC, held in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini della Biennale from August […]
Nature-Friendly Innovation Against Climate Change Text: Bálint Botzheim A key agent in climate change in the Carpathian Basin happens to be water, of which we temporarily have too much or too little. In spring and early summer sudden showers and downpours are often accompanied by flash floods. In the latter half of the summer, however, […]
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