Lechner in Paris Text: Barry Bergdoll Ödön Lechner’s highly original corpus of work in the 1890s and opening years of the twentieth century is so associated with the notion of Secessionist departure from tradition and with the folk art infused art nouveau practices of other designers – like Antonio Gaudi in Catalonia or Lars Sonck […]
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Ödön Lechner, the Architect of the Modernization Period
National Style in Europe Text: Ilona Sármány-Parsons The attempts made by Ödön Lechner to create a genuinely Hungarian architectural style has been the topic of heated theoretical debates for over a century now. It encourages each generation to try to realize Lechner’s dream from time to time, but in turn, these efforts tend to generate […]
The Generation of Vagabonds
Organic Architecture Today Text: László Kuli After the death of Imre Makovecz, it seemed necessary to survey and assess to what extent his oeuvre influenced contemporary Hungarian architecture, where his influence is traceable, and which individual buildings may be associated with the organic concept. Apropos of this, many architects are mentioned who may not have […]
Architecture in the Hagenbund
Pragmatic Modernism – In-Between Avantgarde and Mainstream Text: Matthias Boeckl The „architecture of the Hagenbund” represents a field of activities on the margins of avantgarde and beyond which regularly supplied standard architecture with the essences of Modernist ideas. AS it was widely accepted it used to have more significant influence that the spectacular expressions of […]
Hungarians in the Network of Hagenbund in Vienna (1900–1938)
The Charm of the “Other Modernism” Text: Éva Bajkay The central museum of Austrian art, the Belvedere devoted an exhibition of new perspectives at the end of to the association of artists named after Josef Hagen innkeeper, the short name of which is Hagenbund. It was not the works of the members but the network […]
Skyward
Highrise City Frankfurt DAM, Frankfurt, 8 November 2014 – 19 April 2015 How and why did Frankfurt rise to such architectural heights? The exhibition explores this question and offers an overview of the history of the city’s high-rises. It starts with post-war reconstruction via the battle over houses in the Westend district, through to the […]
Jasmina Cibic: Spielraum – The Nation Loves It
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 30 January – 8 March 2015 Acting as a synthesis of the artist’s past conceptual and formal investigations, the Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic’s new video installation and project Spielraum: The Nation Loves It, presents the first chapter of the project Spielraum, which will be followed by two subsequent chapters that will be […]
Ybl-épületsorsok az Unger-háztól a Kálvin térig
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In Memoriam of a House
No. 40 Király Street, Budapest Architect: József Hild (1789–1867) Text: József Vinkó Photos: Martin Fejér Completed in 1844 after designs by József Hild, this Revivalist Classicist building had been one of the gems of the Jewish quarter for some 250 years. Then the association named Óvás („Protection”) made history when starting its activities to protect […]
Kotsis Iván Commemorative Medallion 2014
Béla Kerékgyártó Association of Hungarian Architects, 15 December 2015 Founded in 1989, the medal named after Iván Kotsis is actually a “fair play” prize awarded to Hungarian architects by the Association of Hungarian Architects year by year on December 15th, the birthday of its denominator based on nominations by a board of curators. At the […]
A házak nem hazudnak
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In the Urban Fabric
The New Parish Church of Zoltán Meszlényi the Blessed Architect: Róbert Jahoda Text: Tamás Meggyesi Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky One could hardly take on the task to assess and interpret the new Catholic church of the Lágymányos district in Kelenföld without referring to the contemporary conditions of sacred architecture as such and thus entering into the […]