Dubravka Đukanović: Architecture of Roman Catholic Churches in Vojvodina from 1699 to 1939 The Provincial Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Petrovaradin Novi Sad, 2015 The monograph „Architecture of Roman Catholic Churches in Vojvodina from 1699 to 1939“ is a bilingual publication which presents the results of many years of research focused on the […]
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Ázbej & Ázbej
Kunsthalle, Budapest, 26 July – 11 September 2016 Interlinking generations, the co-operation of fathers and their children in the arts and disciplines make for inexhaustible, exciting and enlightening stories. An exhibition of father and son is proof positive that renewal need not begin by sweeping away the past, but often quite the contrary. The concept […]
Builders
Builds ~ makes, does, constructs, creates, develops. However we try to describe it, the point is: building is an activity, strongly connected creating. We build and construct, not only with our hands, but with words. One way or another, we create something every day. But what do we build for others, with a socially engaged […]
Gábor Ébli: Museumania
European models for generating cultural experience L’Harmattan, 2016, 259 page The museum is power. Although it is a rather young cultural institution, especially compared to the theatre, which was already important in the antiquity, it has gained much significance during its 250 years of establishment. It functions as an academic institution, plays an important role […]
Report from the Front – Aectivators
The Hungarian Exhibition of the Biennual in Venice Venice Biennal, Giardini, 28 Junue – 27 November 2016 Curators: Gábor Fábián, Dénes Fajcsák Text: György Szegő Photos: József Rosta / Ludwig Múzeum Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, the chief curator of the 15th Biennial of Architecture in Venice used a national example to explain the „new viewpoint”. […]
Landscape Architect of the Year Award 2016
As usual, the highlight of the series of events associated with the Month of Landscape Architecture was the ceremony of the Landscape Architecture Awards ceremony taking place in FUGA on April 26th, 2016. The jury of professionals chose Geum Landscape Architects’ Office (Csenge Csontos†, Borbála Gyüre and Gergely Lád) as the best candidate in this […]
Landscape Odyssey 2015
Cataloguue of Hungarian landscape architecture Landscape Odyssey 2015 included high quality landscape architectural projects from Hungary, while introduced them country-wide in a frame of an exhibition series as well and disseminated this collection as a catalogue over Central Europe.
Museum of Ethnography
Results of the contest The Liget Budapest Project has announced an international design competition for the new Museum of Ethnography building, to be located on the edge of the Városliget (City Park). Fifteen prominent international and Hungarian architect offices will participate in the restricted tender for the design of the new museum building, including for […]
Contours of Cultural Memory
St Ladislaus’ National Memorial Site Visitors’ Centre, Somogyvár Architects: Csaba Molnár, Viktor Szentkuti, Dénes Halmai Text: Eszter Baku Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Launched in 2012, the complex programme meant to develop the visitors’ centre of the St Ladislaus’ memorial site of the Benedictine abbey ambitioned to preserve the existing conditions of the ruins, to display the […]
Headway
The Reconstruction of the Castle District, Sopron Architect: Levente Szabó Landscape architecture: GEUM Text: Barnabás Winkler Photos: Balázs Danyi The historic core of downtown Sopron is surrounded by the walls of the castle. Enriched with bastions, they were built from locally quarried stone and there is a narrow promenade running along them. The latter path […]
Slow-Down
Reconstruction of Széll Kálmán Square, Budapest Architects: Tamás Fialovszky, Richárd Hőnich Landscape architect: Barnabás Szakács Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky The reconstruction project of Széll Kálmán Square, which is the largest junction of the transport system of Buda, has been exposed to open and heated disputes as it divided opinions of both professionals and […]
Blown by the Széll…
Notes the new Moszkva Square Text: Gyula Zeke Sorry, this content is only available in Hungarian.