A Statement by MÉSZ

About the future of the Budavár National Electricity Spreader Building   According to news published recently, the Hungarian Government intends to demolish the much disputed, yet iconic Budavár National Electricity Spreader building. The Association of Hungarian Architects is convinced that high-standard architectural works of the past century should be protected much in the same way […]

A New Issue Concerning Lechner’s Revolution

Debt of a Century, Prolonged Text: György Szegő   The greatest master of Hungarian Art Nouveau, Ödön Lechner was born on August 17th, 1845. Now, in 2020 we are celebrating his 175th birthday. Celebrations like this are supposed to be associated with births, but as the evaluation of Art Nouveau and its “Hungarian form” are […]

Intertwining Gestures

St John Paul II Church, Páty Architect: Robert Gutowski Text: Tamás Kiss Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky   The church is located in the heart of the village, on a gently inclining neighbourhood surrounded by detached family houses built in the past few decades with a green-belt typology. As a composition, it strikes one as a building […]

Broadway Melody

The Reconstruction of the Thalia Orangery Architect: Krisztián Vincze Text: György Szegő Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky One of the most unique curiosities of the „Pest Broadway” is the building of Thália Theatre in which a minor theatre was now reborn named Thália Télikert (Orangery). During the large-scale reconstruction the direction of acting was turned by 90°. […]

The House of the Exchange Egg

Kecskemét Campus, Education Building Architects: Lajos Hartvig DLA, Gábor Nyéki, Béla Bánáti Text: Mária Tatai Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Based in Kecskemét, János Neumann University was founded by uniting several colleges of the Great Hungarian Plain in 2000. In Autumn 2019 the first unit of the campus was opened for the university to house the Faculty […]

Along the Arch of a Circle

Detached House, Gödöllő Architects: Zoltán Horváth, Márton Benedek, Balázs Juhász Text: Sándor Csontó Photos: Nóra Bereczki Architect Péter Kaffka designed a complex in Gödöllő in 1940 to contain three houses for a company of well-known Budapest-based artists. Using means of Hungarian folk art,  and yet reaching beyond it, the complex included a long single unit […]