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The Eighth Church
The Art of Endre Bálint Hungarian National Gallery, 1 February – 11 May 2014 Continuing its series of exhibitions featuring important figures of Hungarian art, this year the Hungarian National Gallery is staging an exhibition of the life-work of one of the most significant figures of Hungarian modern art and the avant-garde, Endre Bálint, on […]
Iván Kotsis Prize 2013
Iván Kotsis Prize 2013
In 2013 the Iván Kotsis Prize went to Attila Bodrossy DLA architect
The prize-giving ceremony was held on 16th December 2013.
The Whale on the Bank of River Danube
This October Marc Augé French ethnologist visited Budapest to deliver a lecture during the conference titled Science and Power after which he took part in discussions. One of the focuses of his research work in ethnology and anthropology is the interpretation of location. His stay here had nothing to do with the opening of the Whale in November…
Research, Education and Innovation
The building is located on an area defined by the principles of the general plans made for the world exhibition which remained on blueprint: it is placed on the Boulevard of Hungarian Scientists, next to the so-called Q1 Building which houses the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Information Technology and Economics of the Budapest…
A Test of Courage
A4 Studio had an utterly simple idea for this utterly simple construction to reflect the standards of fencing in Hungary by architectural means: a golden medal calls for a golden box. Courage was much needed to come up with such an obvious, pretentious concept in the context of contemporary Hungarian architecture which is permeated by a variety…
Straw Theatre in Tallinn
The unique theatre of Europe built from straw only stood in the capital of Estonia for six months on the ruins of a former Soviet naval base. It was built in 2011 with the purpose to function as the venue for some unique programmes of the Tallinn European Cultural Centre that summer. It stood on the top of a former Baroque-style earthwork called…
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis?
The spectacles of vernacular architecture in villages like Liptó and Árva, Tomáš Džadoň artist realized with a shock how dull and uniform prefab housing define the lifestyles of people living there by their bleakness. Almost every other citizen in Slovakia lives in prefab houses. According to the original concept, the artist wanted to remodel one of…
Waiting for a Museum
So far the Museum of Architecture has existed as a collection in Hungary. As part of the concept competition for the Museum District this autumn at last now there is the chance to see the outlines of a scheme of a comprehensive architectural centre featuring independent exhibition areas, research centre, and scientific base facilitating the building…
Architectural Centre or Architectural Museum?
The Architekturzentrum Wien presents its history in a comprehensive publication. Through the 20 years of its existence the institution founded in 1993 has grown into one of the most important forums of architecture which is housed in one of the wings of the downtown MuseumQuartiers otherwise containing contemporary and modern…
On the Nature of Post-Critical Architecture
The so-called architectural criticality was a subject of theoretical debates at the turn of the millennia, through which participants tried to redefine the confines of the architectural discipline and the role of architects amongst basic contemporary changes (economic, politic, social and technological). Debates were generated by members of the…
Stone on Stone. Greeting Ferenc Dávid
Greeting Ferenc Dávid on Behalf of his Colleagues in the Protection of Monuments. This text is an enlarged and edited version of a ceremonial address delivered on October 3rd, 2013 in FUGA to honour Ferenc Dávid, art historian on the occasion of handing over volumes of collected essays proving that belongingness and affinity of the profession…