The Metropolis Experiment

Vienna and the 1873 World Exhibition Photos: Wien Museum After “The struggle for the city”, a major exhibition on politics, art and everyday life around 1930, Wien Museum presents another panoramic view of an era. This time, the spotlight is trained on the years around 1870, a crucial transformative phase in Vienna’s development towards becoming […]

Konstantin Grcic

Panorama, Vitra Design Museum, 22. 03. – 14. 09. 2014 Photos: Vitra, AndreaF ábián Konstantin Grcic is one of the most influential designers of our time. Serious and functional, unwieldy and occasionally disconcerting, his works combine an industrial aesthetic with experimental, artistic elements. Many of Grcic’s creations, such as »Chair_One« (2004) or the »Mayday« lamp […]

Egy szakma arcképe

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Contemporary Architecture in Rome

Tra/Between Art and Architecture, Rome, MAXXI, 17 April 2014 – 21 September 2014 Two exhibitions in one: Roma Interrotta and Piero Sartogo and the Artists, united by a common title that sums up the sprit both shows: TRA/BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE. The exhibition opens at the MAXXI on 17 April (through 21 September 2014), in […]

Ybl-reneszánsz

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Solar Decathlon 2014

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14th International Architecture Exhibition Venice

Death in Venice Szöveg: Hatvani Fotók: Hatvani, László György Sáros, International Architecture Exhibition Venice According to previous information, this biennale was meant to be different from all the former ones. The Koolhaas method, „more and more, more is more…”, condensification has proven to be efficient here as well. Themes crowded beneath the head word Fundamentals […]

I. National Architecture Salon

Műcsarnok, Budapest, 3 June – 7 September 2014 Text: Kas Oosterhuis Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Knowing Hungary from the inside out as from 1978 thanks to my partner in life and business Ilona Lénárd who was born and raised in Budapest, I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer professionalism of the presented built project and of […]

Past in a Frame

Medieval University, Pécs Landscape: Balázs Almási Architect: Antal Gergely Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Balázs Almási, Mária Tatai Remains of the very first university in Hungary were found behind the Cathedral of Pécs. The archaeological site is open to the public now after many years. Modelled after the university of Bologna, the university of Pécs lacking […]

The Reconstruction of Kossuth Lajos Square

The Parliament Museum and the Visitors’ Centre, Budapest Architect: Zoltán Tima Landscape: Sándor Mohácsi Text: Ágnes Józsa Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Kossuth Square was renewed in 2014. Behind it there is the Parliament designed by Imre Steindl in Neo-Renaissance style which is a spectacular landmark building here when viewed from either the bank of the River […]