Text: Benjamin Makovecz In his poetically beautiful writing, Benjamin Makovecz attempts to describe the slowly unfolding and ever increasingly intimate relationship between father and son from the early 1960s until 2011, the year of Imre Makovecz’s death. The writer’s perspective is that of a „young boy from Pest”, and the tone of his writing is […]
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The London Pavilion
Text: László György Sáros In 1997, Prince Charles (now King Charles III of Great Britain) asked Imre Makovecz to design an “exhibition” in Westminster, in Embankment Park beside the River Thames. Makovecz was to present in a pavilion what he had achieved as an architect, thinker, and teacher at the head of the school he […]
Imre Makovecz: Experiments – Buildings. The Architecture and Artworks of Imre Makovecz in the 1960s and 1970s
Text: Katalin Keserü The architecture and artworks fine art of Imre Makovecz – and primarily the early period of his school – as well as its monographic processing and analysis have remained virtually unknown so far. Katalin Keserü’s study undertook the task of revealing them, focusing on the 1960s and 1970s. Back in the 1960s, […]
FFF _ PÁLYÁZATI FELHÍVÁS
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Kárász János és Maria Auböck: S/M/L/XL Partitúrák nyitott terekhez
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Future in Optimism
World Architecture Day 2025 Text: György Szegő Photos: MÉSZ The Hungarian Association of Architects announced a panel discussion held on October 10th at its headquarters, which is currently undergoing significant renovation, as part of the annual celebration. In his introduction, Csaba Nagy, currently president of MÉSZ, quoted from a letter written by Regina Gonthier, president […]
Hauszmann Award 2025
The Faculty of Architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) announced the Hauszmann Award competition for the 25th time this year. The award, which has been presented to 120 architects to date, is open to anyone who defended their diploma project at the Faculty of Architecture of the Budapest University of Technology […]
Award for Architecture on the Hungarian Academy of Arts
The departments of the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) have once again this year honored outstanding figures in Hungarian intellectual life who have produced unique works in the fields of art, art theory, art organization, and art administration. Each year, the members of the MMA’s nine divisions award prizes to two individuals, one of whom, […]
House of the Year Award 2025
The House of the Year competition has been held for 40 years now with the aim of identifying and promoting to professionals and the general public high-quality architectural works that are considered exemplary not only from an aesthetic point of view, but also from an environmental and economic perspective. Of the 23 family homes and […]
At Dusk, in the Snow, in the Light
Pauline Monastery, Hargitafürdő Architect: Arnold Macalik Text: Levente Szabó Photos: Balázs Biri Nowadays, one can rarely find built spaces in which the accummulation of materials, the density of space, and the concentrated presence of spirit almost elevate them above their age and original purpose. What these places have in common is that they suddenly seem […]
No Cheap Jokes
The New Headquarters of 3h Architects, Budapest Architects: Katalin Csillag, Zsolt Gunther Text: Anna Zöldi Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky With incredible consistency, 3h’s leading designers, Katalin Csillag and Zsolt Gunther have created an elegant white screen within the turn-of-the-century framework, in front of which any vision can come to life. The turn-of-the-century building is a three-storey, […]
The “Hungarian Dolphin” Swims Again
HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network Headquarters, Budapest Architects: Árpád Ferdinánd, Csaba Németh Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: Miklós Bereszlényi Launched in 2019, the Eötvös Loránd Research Network was tasked with maintaining, managing and operating research institutes and research sites separated from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). From the summer of 2023 on, it will continue to […]