Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 12 March – 29 May 2016 DEMO:POLIS – The Right to Public Space presents the possibilities that the public has to shape its own city. The anonymous, virtual public space of the Internet and the real streets and squares are both locations for people’s demands as well as subject to their […]
Vízizrí – Workers’ Culture on the Banks of the Danube
Kassák Museum, 4 March – 5 June 2016 Modernisation, industrialisation and the move to the city significantly altered the fabric of Hungarian society at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The evolution of Budapest into a great city, the concentrated nature of industrial work and low-grade mass housing all radically changed the world […]
Pier Luigi Nervi – Architecture for Sport
MAXXI, Rome, 5 Februray – 2 October 2016 This exhibition features a host of drawings, photographs, documents and models from over 60 projects for sports facilities, much of drawn from the Nervi Archive in the MAXXI Architettura collections. A unique opportunity to examine the development of the design and constructional methods of the engineer from […]
Alejandro Aravena
Alejandro Aravena of Chile receives the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize He practices architecture as an artful endeavor in private commissions and in designs for the public realm and epitomizes the revival of a more socially engaged architect. Chicago, IL (January 13, 2016) — Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture […]
The tale of urban regeneration
SEM IX. Conference, Budapest, 23-24 November 2015 23 November 2015 – Conference Venue: Institut français de Budapest, 1011 Budapest, Fő u. 17. 9.30 Opening: Levente POLYÁK (KÉK Contemporary Architecture Centre) 9.45 Dr. Ferenc GEGESY (Mayor of Ferencváros between 1990 and 2010) 10.15 Katalin ANDA (chief architect of Ferencváros between 1989 and 1995) 10.45 Bernard BOCLÉ […]
Re: construction
Exhibition of Hetedik Műterem FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, 3 December 2015 – 10 January 2016 Opening speech by Ferenc Cságoly Exhibition design: Ákos Polgárdi, Ágnes Rubik Sorry, the opening speech is only available in Hungarian.
Cultural investments 2016
Buda Castle and Liget Budapest – Great cultural investments in Budapest Symposium, Várkert Bazár, 20th January, 2016 Participants of the roundtable discussion: László Baán, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Ministerial Commissioner responsible for the Liget Project János Krähling, professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics László L. Simon, Secretary of State […]
Lőrinczi Edit interior designer
Editors: O. Ecker Judit, Oltvai Andrea Chamber of Hungarian Architects, Budapest 2015, 112 page The book presenting Edit Lőrinczi interior designer’s oeuvre is the third volume in the series edited by the Interior Design Division of the Chamber of Hungarian Architects – after István Németh (2009) and Sándor Mikó (2011). Authors: József Finta, Éva Kiss, […]
Balázs Halmos – Katalin Marótzy: Műemlék, rajz, kutatás
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2015 The book edited by Balázs Halmos and Katalin Marótzy presents the results of the 13 year long research at the St. Michael Cathedral in Gyulafehérvár made by students of the Department for History of Architecture and of Monuments at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The book […]
Városliget – Város – Vár
Hungarian Society for Urban Planning, 2015 According to the Liget Budapest project the Városliget – Város – Vár book published by the Hungarian Society for Urban Planning accumulate several statements, conferences, lectures, professional and public discussions on the architectural competitions, results, cultural, commercial and social effects, and of course the continous twists accompany the project.
Olafur Eliasson: Baroque baroque
Belvedere, Vienna, 21 November 2015 – 6 March 2016 Like no other artist of his generation, danish-icelandic-rooted artist Olafur Eliasson stages the physical and material experience of artistic works since almost two decades. In this context, he questions our reception habits. Eliasson uses approaches from science, psychology and architecture in order to make the relation […]
A felhasználóbarát város
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