The Community of Architects and the Association of Hungarian Architects

Text: Csaba Nagy The Association of Hungarian Architects, with more than 120 years of historical tradition, has operated under very different and changing social conditions and architectural values, with a smaller and more renewed board and organisation. Each age brings different challenges and opportunities. Today, the aim is to work together, to understand and help […]

Csonka Pál Award 2024

Architects House, 11. 07. Founded by the Association of Hungarian Architects in 1988, the award commemorates Pál Csonka, who was considered an internationally renowned scientist and teacher of several generations of architects. The award is intended to recognize the creative cooperation of architects and structural designers (constructors). The prize can be awarded in the creative […]

Annual General Meeting of the Association of Hungarian Architects

House of Architects, 27 May Text and photos: Association of Hungarian Architects The annual general meeting of the the Association of Hungarian Architects was held on 27 May at the House of Architects, where András Krizsán, outgoing president, gave a ceremonial introduction. Afterwards he listed in detail the activities of MÉSZ 2023, both national and […]

Local Value

3rd National Salon of Architecture, Kunsthalle Budapest Text: Tamás Ulrich Photos: György Dénes The title of Chief Curator of the 3rd National Salon of Architecture was awarded to Eszter Dénes, architect and architectural writer, in a competition organised by the MMA. The basic concept of the exhibition is to present the materials in four rooms, […]

Csete

György Csete, Ildikó Csete and the Pécs Group Text: András Hadik Photos: Zsófia Nyirkos / Kunsthalle Budapest The exhibition presents the works of György Csete (1937–2016), one of the founding fathers of Hungarian organic architecture, and his wife, the textile artist Ildikó Csete (1940–2018), together with the works of the Pécs Youth Office from the […]

A Worthy Commemoration

KÓS 140 – The workshop of Károly Kós Text: Gábor Nagy Photos: Kunsthalle Budapest Károly Kós (1883–1977) was an architect whose wide-ranging architectural activities spanned much of the 20th century and many of its history-making periods. At the beginning of his career, before the First World War, as a leading figure of the so-called ‘Young […]

Public Awards on 15th March 2024

On the occasion of the anniversary of the 1848-49 Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence, awards were presented to outstanding artists and scientists at the Houses of Parliament and the Vigadó in Pest. In total forty prize-winners were awarded, including architects and interior designers. Ferenc Salamin, Miklós Ybl Prize-winning architect, full member of the Hungarian […]

Value-based architecture

21st International Congress of Architects, MTSE Dr. Koltai Jenő Sports Centre, 08. 03. 2024. Text: Orsolya Ware-Nagy Photos: Anna Fábri The 21st MTSE International Congress of Architects was organised focussing on a fine-sounding but elusive slogan, because architects work in the belief that their work creates value, that they add value to the environment: the […]

The Architects’ Place — The Space of Architecture

György Szegő conversing with Attila Turi, Architect and President of MMA Attila Turi, as the new president of MMA (the Hungarian Academy of Arts) and an architect, gave an interview to Hungarian Architecture informing our readers on three issues. Firstly, he spoke about the responsibility of the Hungarian Academy of Arts to recognise and implement […]

Iván Kotsis Award 2023: Tamás László Vincze DLA

This recognition awarded by the Association of Hungarian Architects is a „fair-play prize” of professionals symbolizing the approach authenticated also by the oeuvre of the denominator with his pursue of his vocation with the modesty of an architect based on ethics. Besides, it is also an appreciation of high-standard education. At the awards ceremony held […]

Silver Carpenter’s Pencil Award 2023

The Silver Carpenter’s Pencil Award was founded in 2010 by the Foundation for the Hungarian Arts, at the initiative of architects Attila Komjáthy and his wife, Ilona Komjáthyné Kremnicsán. The recognition makes the press work for Hungarian architecture visible to the general public. It is awarded for quality journalistic activity appearing in printed or electronic […]