Yearbook of the BME Doctoral School of Architecture, 2014-2015 BME, 2015, editor: Levente Szabó At the end of the 2014-2015 school year, not only the thematic year with the motto ‘By the Danube’ was closed but also the first five years of the new operation system of the Doctoral School of Architecture, which was launched […]
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Ferenc Vámossy: Hungarian Architecture in the 20th Century
Values of our Heritage 1902–2002. I. Volume Tarsoly Publisher, 2015, 276 page, editor: Erzsébet F. Vámossy, Mária Tatai In this monograph Ferenc Vámossy examines the Hungarian architecture of the 20th century focusing on the interaction between heritage and renewal. The focal point is to understand and present the architectural values, to examine the social background […]
Gyula Ernyey: Dezső Bozzay and his Colleagues
FUGA, 2016, 242 page An other excellent review from Gyula Ernyey on the history of Hungarian design published by the FUGA Contemporary Architecture Center in Budapest focuses on Dezső Bozzay’s and his Colleagues oeuvre. Dezső Bozzay’s name hardly known to the public but his emblematic works played crutial part of the lives for many generations […]
Magnificent Environment
Imre Farkas photo exhibition, Bank Center, 22 April – 5 May 2016 According to the Earth Day the gallery of the Bank Center Budapest organized an exhibition of photographer Imre Farkas. He focuses on the similarities between the natural and architectural order.
Community architecture
Jeney Lajos oeuvre exhibition Lechner Lajos Knowledge Center, 23 May – 30 September 2016 The heirs of Lajos Jeney handded down his professional work to the archives of Lajos Lechner Knowledge Center in October 2015. The Lajos Lechner Knowledge Center honors his heritage with this oeuvre exhibition.
Moholy-Nagy: Future Present
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 27 May – 7 September 2016 László Moholy-Nagy (b. 1895, Borsód, Austria-Hungary; d. 1946, Chicago) believed in the potential of art as a vehicle for social transformation, working hand in hand with technology for the betterment of humanity. A restless innovator, Moholy-Nagy experimented with a wide variety of mediums, moving fluidly […]
National Awards and Prizes
March 15th, 2016 Initiated by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, János Áder, President of Hungary handed over national awards of merit on the anniversary of the Revolution and War of Independence in the 1848/49. The prizes were delivered by Ministers János Lázár and Zoltán Balogh. Of the authors given recognitions now we are hereby writing about […]
13th International Architecture Congress
16 March 2016 Text: Anna Zöldi The 13th International Architectural Congress sensitively reacted to what mostly excites Europe nowadays: it has invited its lecturers with the slogan „the meeting of cultures”. Although there were only five genuinely international lecturers, we could grasp a comprehensive survey wittingly embedded into a framework reflecting our local conditions. It […]
8th Budapest Architecture Film Days
3-6 March 2016 Text: Anna Zöldi Organized for the 8th time this year, the days of films on architecture has been true to its original mission again. Evolving into the most prestigious event of the region, this survey of films does not only evoke architecture as clad in an artistic kimono or a majestic robe, […]
MOME Campus Development Scheme
Results of the Contest In accordance with the governmental decree dating from 2014, the most significant development scheme of the creative industry in Hungary was launched at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts with the aim to create MOME Campus – Creative Innovative Science Park primarily ambitioning to protect the existing values of the campus as […]
Moderate Approaches
National Heritage Park, Ópusztaszer Architect: István Murka Text: Anna Zöldi Photos: Tibor Zsitva The National Heritage Park in Ópusztaszer has been enriched with three sincere buildings of various characters reflecting the logic of their individual functions. István Murka, the architect in charge of the project ambitioned to re-configurate the former random spatial structure whilst integrating […]
Opening a Gate
Ludovika Campus Boarding School, Budapest Architects: József Finta, Tamás János Szabó Text: Eszter Götz Photos: Tamás Bujnovszky Embracing Orczy Gardens, the complex contains all the institutions of the National University of Public Service launched in the beginning of 2012. First of all the restoration of the main building of Ludovika was completed in the spring […]